Memory pooling between selected memory resources via a base station

ABSTRACT

Apparatuses, systems, and methods related to memory pooling between selected memory resources via a base station are described. A system using a memory pool formed as such may enable performance of functions, including automated functions critical for prevention of damage to a product, personnel safety, and/or reliable operation, based on increased access to data that may improve performance of a mission profile. For instance, one apparatus described herein includes a first memory resource, a first processor coupled to the first memory resource, and a wireless base station coupled to the first processor. The first memory resource, the first processor, and the base station are configured to enable formation of a memory pool between the first memory resource and a second memory resource at a vehicle responsive to a request to access the second memory resource from the first processor transmitted via the base station.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates generally to semiconductor memory andmethods, and more particularly, to apparatuses, systems, and methods formemory pooling between selected memory resources via a base station.

BACKGROUND

Memory resources are typically provided as internal, semiconductor,integrated circuits in computers or other electronic systems. There aremany different types of memory, including volatile and non-volatilememory. Volatile memory can require power to maintain its data (e.g.,host data, error data, etc.). Volatile memory can include random accessmemory (RAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), static random accessmemory (SRAM), synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), andthyristor random access memory (TRAM), among other types. Non-volatilememory can provide persistent data by retaining stored data when notpowered. Non-volatile memory can include NAND flash memory, NOR flashmemory, and resistance variable memory, such as phase change randomaccess memory (PCRAM) and resistive random access memory (RRAM),ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM), and magnetoresistive randomaccess memory (MRAM), such as spin torque transfer random access memory(STT RAM), among other types.

Electronic systems often include a number of processing resources (e.g.,one or more processors), which may retrieve instructions from a suitablelocation and execute the instructions and/or store results of theexecuted instructions to a suitable location (e.g., the memoryresources). A processor can include a number of functional units such asarithmetic logic unit (ALU) circuitry, floating point unit (FPU)circuitry, and a combinatorial logic block, for example, which can beused to execute instructions by performing logical operations such asAND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, and XOR, and invert (e.g., NOT) logicaloperations on data (e.g., one or more operands). For example, functionalunit circuitry may be used to perform arithmetic operations such asaddition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on operands via anumber of operations.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a wirelesslyutilizable resource that may be utilized for formation of a memory poolbetween selected memory resources in accordance with a number ofembodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of examples of a system including wirelesslyutilizable resources in accordance with a number of embodiments of thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of examples of a network for wirelesslycoupling selected wirelessly utilizable resources for formation of amemory pool in accordance with a number of embodiments of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an example of environments thatcorrespond to a range of densities of wirelessly utilizable resourcescouplable for formation of a memory pool in accordance with a number ofembodiments of the present disclosure.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a route forvehicles upon which the resources may be implemented for formation of amemory pool in accordance with a number of embodiments of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of wirelesslyutilizable resources selectably coupled to circuitry to enable formationof a memory pool in accordance with a number of embodiments of thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating an example of authorizationcriteria that may be utilized in authorization of formation of a memorypool in accordance with a number of embodiments of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 8 is a flow chart illustrating an example of formation of a memorypool between selected wirelessly utilizable memory resources, via a basestation, implemented on a corresponding number of vehicles in accordancewith a number of embodiments of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The present disclosure includes systems, apparatuses and methodsassociated with memory pooling between selected memory resources via abase station. In a number of embodiments, an apparatus includes a memoryresource, a processing resource coupled to the memory resource, atransceiver resource coupled to the processing resource, and a basestation wirelessly couplable to the transceiver resource. The memoryresource, the processing resource, the transceiver resource, and thebase station are configured to enable formation of a memory pool betweenthe memory resource and another memory resource responsive to a requestto access the other memory resource via a wirelessly coupled basestation.

A processing resource (e.g., one or more processors, microprocessors, orsome other type of controlling circuitry), in combination with a memoryresource as described herein, may be operated at a high speed (e.g., ata bandwidth of greater than 10 gigabits per second (GB/s)) forperformance of some operations. To contribute to such performance,faster processing resources and/or more memory resources may be combinedon a particular computing device. However, the higher the used bandwidthof and/or the more such resources are operating on the computing device,the higher the failure rate (e.g., failures in time (FIT)) and/or thelower the mean time between failures (MTBF) may become. Combining aprocessing resource with a lower bandwidth and/or a memory resourcehaving less memory capacity (e.g., fewer memory devices, banks, arrays,etc.) on such computing devices may comparatively reduce the failurerate.

However, performance of particular functions (e.g., functionalities thatare programmed and/or programmable to yield an intended outcome and/or anumber of operations that are performed as sub-portions of thefunctionality) may rely on an ability of a processing resource, incombination with a memory resource, to operate at a bandwidth highenough to possibly result in a high FIT and/or a low MTBF. Suchfunctions may include autonomous functions, which may, for example, usemachine learning and/or artificial intelligence to perceive anenvironment and adjust operations accordingly to improve probability ofyielding an intended outcome of a particular functionality (e.g.,without human interaction and/or supervision).

Proper performance of the operations contributing to such automatedfunctionalities may be critical for prevention of damage to a productincluding such automated functionalities (e.g., autonomous vehicles,such as automobiles, trucks, trains, airplanes, rockets, space stations,etc., among many other possibilities) and/or safety of transport of anobject (e.g., a human passenger or any other object) being transited viaan autonomous vehicle. Hence, automated functionalities utilized in suchimplementations may benefit from having lower error rates in executionof instructions for performance and/or selection of the operationscontributing to the automated functionalities (e.g., relative to highererror rates considered acceptable for other utilities, such as cellulartelephones, smart phones, personal computers, etc.).

Two ways to affect bandwidth are to adjust a bit width (e.g., a numberof channels) on a bus for input and output (I/O) of data and to adjust aspeed for I/O of data by a processor. For example, an implementation ofa processor (e.g., a processing resource) having a 256 bit interfacerunning at 14 GB/s and coupled to 8 DRAM devices, including one or morebanks, (e.g., a memory resource) may have a high bandwidth of 448 GB/s,which may be correlated with a high cost, a high power consumption, ahigh operating temperature, and/or a short battery life, along with ahigh FIT rate. An implementation of a processor having a 32 bitinterface running at 6 GB/s and coupled to 1 DRAM device may have alower bandwidth of 25 GB/s, which may be correlated with a lower cost, alower power consumption, a lower operating temperature, and/or a longerbattery life, along with a lower FIT rate. However, reduction of thebandwidth of the processing resources and/or the number of memoryresources combined on a particular computing device may be in conflictwith meeting intended performance levels of an automated functionalityand/or an implementation including the functionality.

In contrast, consistent with a number of embodiments described herein,there may be a plurality (e.g., a network) of memory resources andprocessing resources (e.g., formed and/or positioned on a correspondingplurality of vehicles) wirelessly connected (e.g., coupled) by atransceiver resource (e.g., a number of radio frequency (RF)transmitter/receivers abbreviated as transceivers) to share data byformation of a memory pool via a base station. Such a memory pool may,for example, include 100 vehicles, where each vehicle may include a 32bit interface running at 6 GB/s and coupled to 1 DRAM device. The memorypool formed as such may effectively have a 3,200 bit wide bus with atotal available bandwidth of around 2600 GB/s. To enable such a buswidth and/or bandwidth between separate vehicles, the wireless couplingmay be performed using fifth generation (5G) wireless technology,although embodiments are not limited to using 5G technology. The actualsize of the memory pool, along with the corresponding bit width and/orbandwidth, would be scalable dependent upon the number of vehiclesincluded in the memory pool, among other considerations describedherein.

Hence, formation of a memory pool as such may increase a cumulativecomputation power (e.g., capacity) and/or reliability of the combinationof memory resources and processing resources on the plurality ofvehicles (e.g., relative to a processing resource operating at a higherbandwidth and coupled to a higher number of memory banks on each of thevehicles). The reduced complexity and/or bandwidth of such a processingresource and memory resource implementation may be associated with lowercost, power consumption, operating temperature, and/or a longer batterylife. The reliability may be increased by a reduced FIT rate for eachprocessing resource and/or memory resource on each individual vehicle,by a failed processing resource and/or memory resource not beingincluded in the memory pool in the first place, and/or by a failedprocessing resource and/or memory resource being replaced by anotherprocessing resource and/or memory resource on another vehicle orvehicles.

The figures herein follow a numbering convention in which the firstdigit or digits of a reference number correspond to the figure numberand the remaining digits identify an element or component in the figure.Similar elements or components between different figures may beidentified by the use of similar digits. For example, 108 may referenceelement “08” in FIG. 1, and a similar element may be referenced as 608in FIG. 6.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a wirelesslyutilizable resource that may be utilized for formation of a memory poolbetween selected memory resources in accordance with a number ofembodiments of the present disclosure. The wirelessly utilizableresource 100 illustrated in FIG. 1 is intended to represent anembodiment of one implementation of a combination of various resources.The illustrated wirelessly utilizable resource 100 may represent anembodiment of an “apparatus” as described herein, although suchapparatuses may include more or fewer elements than shown in FIG. 1. Thewirelessly utilizable resource 100 also may represent an example of anembodiment of a plurality of such resources (e.g., 100-1, 100-2, . . . ,100-N), which may be utilizable in combination to enable formation of amemory pool between at least one memory resource and another memoryresource, an embodiment of one of which is shown at 101 in FIG. 1. Forclarity, one memory resource and another memory resource may bedistinguished from each other as a first memory resource and a secondmemory resource denoted respectively by reference numbers 101-1 and101-2. Similarly, one processing resource and another processingresource may be distinguished from each other as a first processingresource and a second processing resource denoted respectively byreference numbers 108-1 and 108-2. Other components presented herein maybe similarly distinguished. As described herein, embodiments are notlimited to two memory resources 101, processing resources 108, andcorresponding other components being included in a memory pool.

A “memory resource” as used herein is a general term intended to atleast include memory (e.g., memory cells) arranged, for example, in anumber of bank groups, banks, bank sections, subarrays, and/or rows of anumber of memory devices. The embodiment of the memory resource 101illustrated in FIG. 1 is shown to include, by way of example, aplurality of memory devices 103-1, 103-2, . . . , 103-N. The memoryresource 101 may be or may include, in a number of embodiments, a numberof volatile memory devices formed and/or operable as RAM, DRAM, SRAM,SDRAM, and/or TRAM, among other types of volatile memory devices.Alternatively or in addition, the memory resource 101 may be or mayinclude, in a number of embodiments, a number of non-volatile memorydevices formed and/or operable as NAND, NOR, other Flash memory devices,PCRAM, RRAM, FeRAM, MRAM, STT RAM, phase change memory, and/or 3DXPoint,among other types of non-volatile memory devices.

Each memory device 103 may, in a number of embodiments, represent amemory device on which a number of bank groups, banks, bank sections,subarrays, and/or rows are configured (e.g., dedicated and/orprogrammable) to store data values (e.g., instructions) for performanceof a particular functionality. Each functionality may include storage ofdata values to direct performance of a number of operations thatcontribute to performance of the functionality. By way of example andnot by way of limitation, such functionalities may include steering avehicle to reach an intended destination, steering the vehicle to avoidobstructions, obeying traffic signals, and/or enabling the formation ofa memory pool between the memory resource 101 formed and/or positionedon the vehicle and at least one other memory resource formed and/orpositioned on another vehicle, among many other possibilities forfunctionalities to be stored by the memory devices 103 of the memoryresource 101 related to vehicles or other implementations.

Each of the plurality of memory devices 103-1, 103-2, . . . , 103-N ofthe memory resource 101 may be coupled to a corresponding plurality ofchannels 105-1, 105-2, . . . , 105-N. The plurality of channels 105-1,105-2, . . . , 105-N are described further in connection with FIG. 6.The plurality of channels 105-1, 105-2, . . . , 105-N may be selectablycoupled to control circuitry 107 of the memory resource 101. The controlcircuitry 107 may be configured to enable data values for and/orinstructions (e.g., commands) related to performance of a particularfunctionality to be directed to an appropriate one or more of theplurality of memory devices 103-1, 103-2, . . . , 103-N.

In a number of embodiments, the data values and/or instructions may beprovided by (e.g., sent from) a processing resource 108 (e.g., from acontroller 110 thereof). The instructions may be sent from theprocessing resource 108 to the memory resource 101 by the resourcesbeing coupled via a bus 118. The bus 118 may include a number of I/Olines (e.g., selectably coupled to the channels 105 via switches 661shown in and described in connection with FIG. 6) sufficient for sendinginstructions to the memory resource 101 and/or for input of data to thememory resource 101 and/or output of data from the memory resource 101for execution by the processing resource 108 (e.g., in performance ofthe various functionalities).

The controller 110 of the processing resource 108 may include and/or bephysically associated with (e.g., be coupled to) a number of componentsconfigured to contribute to operations controlled (e.g., performed) bythe controller 110. Such components may, in a number of embodiments,include a combination component 112 configured to assess resourceavailability in a plurality of separate memory devices 101, an arbitercomponent 114 configured to selectably determine whether a first memoryresource and a separate second memory resource (e.g., formed on adifferent vehicle than the first memory resource) are authorized toenable formation of a memory pool, and/or an operating mode component116 configured to determine a particular number of separate secondmemory resources to be included in a memory pool with the first memoryresource and to direct modulation of operating parameters for access toand transmission of data from the separate second memory resources, asdescribed further herein.

Each memory resource 101 may, in a number of embodiments, be coupled toa respective processing resource 108 configured to send a request forformation of a memory pool to a base station (e.g., as shown at 225 and325 and described in connection with FIGS. 2 and 3, respectively).Alternatively or in addition, each memory resource 101 may be coupled toa respective processing resource 108 configured to respond to a requestreceived from the base station 225 for formation of the memory pool andoriginally sent from a processing resource 108 of another memoryresource 101. For example, in a number of embodiments, each memoryresource 101 on a vehicle may, in a number of embodiments, be coupled toa respective processing resource 108 configured to both send a requestfor formation of the memory pool and respond to a request for formationof the memory pool sent from a processing resource 108 on anothervehicle. In some embodiments, however, particular vehicles may beconfigured to only send a request for formation of the memory pool orrespond to a request for formation of the memory pool.

In a number of embodiments, a first memory resource 101-1 and a secondmemory resource 101-2 each may include at least one volatile memorydevice 103 (e.g., in a DRAM configuration, among other possibleconfigurations of volatile memory) coupled to a respective processingresource 108 configured to wirelessly share data via the wirelesslycoupled base station 225. Alternatively or in addition, a first memoryresource 101-1 and a second memory resource 101-2 each may include atleast one non-volatile memory device 103 (e.g., in a NAND configuration,among other possible configurations of non-volatile memory) coupled to arespective processing resource 108 configured to wirelessly share datavia the wirelessly coupled base station 225.

The processing resource 108 may, in a number of embodiments, includeand/or be physically associated with a mission profile 117. The missionprofile 117 may be selectably coupled to the controller 110 and/or thecomponents 112, 114, 116 associated with the controller 110. The missionprofile 117 may be stored by and/or accessible (e.g., for performance ofread and/or write operations directed by the controller 110) in, forexample, in memory (e.g., SRAM) (not shown) of the processing resource108. Alternatively or in addition, the mission profile 117 may be storedby the memory resource 101 (e.g., by a memory device 103) and may beaccessible (e.g., via bus 118, control circuitry 107, and/or channels105) by the controller 110 of the processing resource 108 forperformance of read and/or write operations.

As such, the mission profile 117 may, in a number of embodiments, beformed and/or positioned on a vehicle in order to provide a resource forinstructions to be executed by the controller 110 of the processingresource 108 in performance of various functionalities stored on thememory resource 101 (e.g., on the memory devices 103 of the memoryresource 101). The memory resource 101 may be selectably coupled to anumber of hardware components (e.g., positioned and/or formed as partsof the vehicle) configured to perform actions to accomplish a missionstored on the mission profile 117 and consistent with thefunctionalities stored on the memory resource 101. On a vehicle, suchhardware components may include hardware to, for example, enablesteering, braking, and/or acceleration of the vehicle to enable arrivalat an intended destination at an intended time in order to accomplishthe mission stored on the mission profile 117.

To be “formed on” a vehicle is intended to mean that a resource (e.g.,at least one of the resources 101, 108, and/or 120 shown and describedin connection with FIG. 1) may be formed on (e.g., during or followingmanufacture) hardware (e.g., structural components and/or a computingdevice) of the vehicle. Alternatively of in addition, to be “formed on”a vehicle is intended to mean that a resource may be “positioned on” thevehicle to provide, for example, a computing device of the vehicle ashardware, software, and/or firmware following manufacture of the vehicle(e.g., as a factory- and/or dealer-installed option(s) or as anafter-market purchase). To be “formed on” or “positioned on” a vehiclemay be abbreviated herein by stating that a resource is “on” thevehicle.

The mission profile 117 may, in a number of embodiments, include anintended destination, an intended arrival time, and/or an intended routeto be followed to reach the intended destination at the intended arrivaltime, among many other possibilities for inclusion in the missionprofile 117. The functionalities and/or operations on the memoryresource 101 may be stored data values (e.g., code) that when executedby the controller 110 on the processing resource 108 is intended toenable accomplishment of the mission profile 117. However, a potentialfor accomplishment of the mission profile 117 may be improved by (e.g.,may require) access to and transfer of data from other memory resources101 (e.g., by formation of a vehicle to vehicle memory pool).

The transferred data may relate to potential obstacles (e.g., unexpectedobstacles) that may be encountered during transit (e.g., driving) alongthe intended route. Data transferred from a number of memory resources101 (e.g., on a number of vehicles located at or near various locationsalong the intended route) may enable compensatory actions to beperformed (e.g., based upon storing corresponding data on the memoryresource 101) to accomplish or more closely match the mission profile117 (e.g., by avoiding such an obstacle and/or following a differentroute to reach the intended destination, among other possibilities). Thepotential obstacles may include adverse weather conditions (e.g., wind,fog, rain, snow, temperature, etc.), traffic jams, pedestrians on theroute (e.g., a parade, protesters, etc.), an accident involving anothervehicle and/or pedestrian, speed traps, road construction, slippery roadsurfaces, among many other possible obstacles.

As such, a processing resource 108 for a memory resource 101 on a firstvehicle may send a request (e.g., automatically and/or in response to adirective from a human driver) to processing resources on other vehiclesfor access to a number of memory resources that enable formation of amemory pool to potentially improve functionalities to enableaccomplishment of the mission profile 117. The other vehicles may belocated within a proximity of the intended route or potentialalternative routes. In a number of embodiments, information (e.g., data)may be provided by (e.g., sent from) a number of base stations (e.g., asshown at 225 and 325 and described in connection with FIGS. 2 and 3,respectively) and/or infrastructure (e.g., houses, police/fire/newsstations, businesses, factories, etc., as shown at 444, 445, and 446 anddescribed in connection with FIG. 4) located within a proximity of theintended route or potential alternative routes. The data of a memorypool formed with these resources may be in addition to or instead ofdata sent from resources on other vehicles.

Determining and/or following (e.g., tracking) positions (e.g.,geographically and/or relative to a particular point) of processingresources 108, base stations 225, 325, and/or infrastructure 444, 445,446 individually and/or relative to one another may, in a number ofembodiments, utilize a Global Positioning System (GPS). GPS is aspace-based radionavigation system operated by the United Statesgovernment. It is a global navigation satellite system that may providegeolocation and time information to a GPS receiver on or near the Earthwhere there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPSsatellites. Alternatively or in addition, the determining and/ortracking of positions may be performed via triangulation relative to,for example, positions of a number of base stations, cell towers, etc.,and/or via photomapping (e.g., using satellite and/or ground baseddigital photographic resources), among other possibilities.

The processing resource 108 (e.g., on each of the plurality of unitaryvehicles 331 and/or the plurality of transport vehicles 334 shown in anddescribed in connection with FIG. 3) may be coupled 119 to a transceiverresource 120. The transceiver resource 120 may be configured towirelessly share data between at least two of a plurality of memoryresources 101 via a processing resource 108 coupled 118 to each of thememory resources 101. Each of a plurality of the memory resources may,in a number of embodiments, be on a corresponding plurality of vehicles(e.g., on each of the plurality of unitary vehicles 331 and/or theplurality of transport vehicles 334). Each transceiver resource 120 mayinclude, in a number of embodiments, one or more radio frequency (RF)transceivers (e.g., as shown at 661 and described in connection withFIG. 6). A transceiver, as described herein, is intended to mean adevice that includes both a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitterand receiver may, in a number of embodiments, be combined and/or sharecommon circuitry. In a number of embodiments, no circuitry may be commonbetween the transmit and receive functions and the device may be termeda transmitter-receiver. Other devices consistent with the presentdisclosure may include transponders, transverters, and/or repeaters,among similar devices.

In a number of embodiments, the transceiver resource 120 may bewirelessly couplable to a base station 225 and/or a cloud processingresource 122 to enable formation of the memory pool. A cloud processingresource 122, as described herein, is intended to include enablement ofaccess to networking resources from a centralized third-party providerusing wide area networking (WAN) or Internet-based access technologies(e.g., as opposed to wireless local area networking (WLAN)). ImprovedInternet access and/or more reliable WAN bandwidth (e.g., suitable forusing 5G wireless technology) may enable processing of networkmanagement functions in the cloud. A cloud processing resource 122 mayprovide centralized management, connectivity, security, control ofand/or addition to requests for information (e.g., data), and/or controlof the network. This may include distribution of wireless access routersor branch-office devices (e.g., in base stations 225) with centralizedmanagement in the cloud by a network management device (not shown) ofthe cloud processing resource 122.

As described herein, the wireless coupling may use 5G technology. 5G maybe designed to utilize a higher frequency portion of the wirelessspectrum, operating in millimeter wave bands (e.g., 28, 38, and/or 60gigahertz), compared to other wireless communication technologies (e.g.,4G and previous generations, among other technologies). The millimeterwave bands of 5G may enable data to be transferred more rapidly thantechnologies using lower frequency bands. For example, a 5G network isestimated to have transfer speeds up to hundreds of times faster than a4G network, which may enable data transfer rates in a range of tens ofmegabits per second (MB/s) to tens of GB/s for tens of thousands ofusers at a time (e.g., in a memory pool, as described herein) byproviding a high bandwidth. The actual size of the memory pool, alongwith the corresponding bandwidth, may be scalable dependent upon thenumber of vehicles included in the memory pool, among otherconsiderations described herein.

For example, the data to be wirelessly shared by at least two memoryresources 101 in a memory pool (e.g., a network) may, in a number ofembodiments, be transferred directly vehicle to vehicle, be transferredvehicle to vehicle indirectly via a base station 225, and/or be uploadedto a cloud processing resource 122 (e.g., from a vehicle and/or a basestation) via a first processing resource 108 coupled to a firsttransceiver resource 120. When uploaded to the cloud processing resource122, the data may be made accessible (e.g., processed) by the cloudprocessing resource 122 for download via a second (e.g., separate)processing resource 108 coupled to a second transceiver resource 120.The cloud processing resource 122 may be utilized instead of, or inaddition to, networking by directly transmitting and/or by directlyreceiving the data between the vehicles and/or utilizing a basestation(s) 225, 325 and/or infrastructure 444, 445, 446 as anintermediary transceiver.

As shown in FIG. 1, the processing resource 108 includes a plurality ofsets of logic units 111-1, . . . , 111-N (collectively referred to aslogic units 111). In a number of embodiments, the processing resource108 may be configured to execute a plurality of sets of instructionsusing the plurality of sets of logic units 111-1, . . . , 111-N andtransmit outputs obtained as a result of the execution via adevice-to-device communication technology that is operable in a numberof frequency bands including the EHF band. The outputs transmitted maybe communicated with other devices such as wirelessly utilizableresources (e.g., wirelessly utilizable resources 200-1, . . . , 200-5.

Although embodiments are not so limited, at least one of the logic units111 can be an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), which is a circuit that canperform arithmetic and bitwise logic operations on integer binarynumbers and/or floating point numbers. As an example, the ALU can beutilized to execute instructions by performing logical operations suchas AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, and XOR, and invert (e.g., inversion)logical operations on data (e.g., one or more operands). The processorresource 108 may also include other components that may be utilized forcontrolling logic units 111. For example, the processing resource 108may also include a control logic (e.g., configured to control a dataflow coming into and out of the logic units 111) and/or a cache coupledto each of the plurality of set of logic units 111-1, . . . , 111-N.

A number of ALUs can be used to function as a floating point unit (FPU)and/or a graphics processing unit (GPU). Stated differently, at leastone of the plurality of sets of logic units 111-1, . . . , 111-N may beFPU and/or GPU. As an example, the set of logic units 111-1 may be theFPU while the set of logic units 111-N may be the GPU.

As used herein, “FPU” refers to a specialized electronic circuit thatoperates on floating point numbers. In a number of embodiments, FPU canperform various operations such as addition, subtraction,multiplication, division, square root, and/or bit-shifting, althoughembodiments are not so limited. As used herein, “GPU” refers to aspecialized electronic circuit that rapidly manipulate and alter memory(e.g., memory resource 101) to accelerate the creation of image in aframe buffer intended for output to a display. In a number ofembodiments, GPU can include a number of logical operations on floatingpoint numbers such that the GPU can perform, for example, a number offloating point operations in parallel.

In some embodiments, GPU can provide non-graphical operation. As anexample, GPU can also be used to support shading, which is associatedwith manipulating vertices and textures with man of the same operationssupported by CPUs, oversampling and interpolation techniques to reducealiasing, and/or high-precision color spaces. These example operationsthat can be provided by the GPU are also associated with matrix andvector computations, which can be provided by GPU as non-graphicaloperations. As an example, GPU can also be used for computationsassociated with performing machine-learning algorithms and is capable ofproviding faster performance than what CPU is capable of providing. Forexample, in training a deep learning neural networks, GPUs can be 250times faster than CPUs. As used herein, “machine-learning algorithms”refers to algorithms that uses statistical techniques to providecomputing systems an ability to learn (e.g., progressively improveperformance on a specific function) with data, without being explicitlyprogrammed.

GPU can be present on various locations. For example, the GPU can beinternal to (e.g., within) the CPU (e.g., of the network device 102).For example, the GPU can be on a same board (e.g., on-board unit) withthe CPU without necessarily being internal to the GPU. For example, theGPU can be on a video card that is external to a wirelessly utilizableresource (e.g., wirelessly utilizable resources 200-1, . . . , 200-5 asdescribed in connection with FIG. 2). Accordingly, the wirelesslyutilizable resource 100 may be an additional video card that can beexternal to and wirelessly coupled to a network device such as thewirelessly utilizable resource for graphical and/or non-graphicaloperations.

A number of GPUs of the processing resource 108 may accelerate a videodecoding process. As an example, the video decoding process that can beaccelerated by the processors 214 may include a motion compensation(mocomp), an inverse discrete cosine transform (iCDT), an inversemodified discrete cosine transform (iMDCT), an in-loop deblockingfilter, an intra-frame prediction, an inverse quantization (IQ), avariable-length decoding (VLD), which is also referred to as aslice-level acceleration, a spatial-temporal deinterlacing, an automaticinterlace/progressive source detection, a bitstream processing (e.g.,context-adaptive variable-length coding and/or context-adaptive binaryarithmetic coding), and/or a perfect pixel positioning. As used herein,“a video decoding” refers to a process of converting base-band and/oranalog video signals to digital components video (e.g., raw digitalvideo signal).

In some embodiments, the processing resource 108 may be furtherconfigured to perform a video encoding process, which converts digitalvideo signals to analog video signals. For example, if the networkdevice (including a display) requests the wirelessly utilizable resource100 to return a specific form of signals such as the analog videosignals, the wirelessly utilizable resource 100 may be configured toconvert, via the processing resource 108, digital video signals toanalog video signals prior to transmitting those wirelessly to thenetwork device.

The wirelessly utilizable resource 100 includes the transceiver 120. Asused herein, a “transceiver” may be referred to as a device includingboth a transmitter and a receiver. In a number of embodiments, thetransceiver 120 may be and/or include a number of radio frequency (RF)transceivers. The transmitter and receiver may, in a number ofembodiments, be combined and/or share common circuitry. In a number ofembodiments, no circuitry may be common between the transmit and receivefunctions and the device may be termed a transmitter-receiver. Otherdevices consistent with the present disclosure may include transponders,transverters, and/or repeaters, among similar devices.

In a number of embodiments, a communication technology that theprocessing resource 108 can utilize may be a device-to-devicecommunication technology as well as a cellular telecommunicationtechnology, and the processing resource 108 may be configured to utilizethe same transceiver (e.g., transceiver 120) for both technologies,which may provide various benefits such as reducing a design complexityof the wirelessly utilizable resource 100. As an example, considerdevices (e.g., wirelessly utilizable resources 200-1, . . . , 200-5and/or any other devices that may be analogous to the wirelesslyutilizable resource 100) in previous approaches, in which the deviceutilizes a device-to-device communication technology as well as acellular telecommunication technology in communicating with otherdevices. The device in those previous approaches may include at leasttwo different transceivers (e.g., each for the device-to-devicecommunication technology and the cellular telecommunication technology,respectively) because each type of communication technology may utilizedifferent network protocols that would further necessarily utilizeunique transceivers. As such, the device implemented with differenttransceivers would increase a design (e.g., structural) complexity thatmay increase costs associated with the device. On the other hand, in anumber of embodiments, the processing resource 108 is configured toutilize the same network protocol for both technologies (e.g.,device-to-device communication and cellular telecommunicationtechnologies), which eliminates a need of having different transceiversfor different types of wireless communication technologies. Accordingly,a number of the present disclosure may reduce a design complexity of thewirelessly utilizable resource 100.

In a number of embodiments, since resources of the wirelessly utilizableresource 100 can be wirelessly utilizable, the wirelessly utilizableresource 100 may be free of those physical interfaces that would havebeen included, to physically connect to a motherboard of a networkdevice and/or a display, in expansion cards of previous approaches. Forexample, the wirelessly utilizable resource 100 as an expansion card maynot include a physical interface, which would have been utilized toconnect to the mother board, such as a physical bus (e.g., S-100 bus,industry standard architecture (ISA) bus, NuBus bus, Micro Channel bus(or Micro Channel Architecture (MCA), extended industry standardarchitecture (EISA) bus, VESA local bus (VLB), peripheral componentinterconnect (PCI) bus, ultra port architecture (UPA), universal serialbus (USB), peripheral component interconnect extended (PCI-X),peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe)) or other physicalchannels such as accelerated graphics port (AGP) that would have beenutilized to connect to the motherboard. For example, the wirelesslyutilizable resource 100 as an expansion card may not include a physicalinterface, which would have been utilized to connect to the display,such as a video graphics array (VGA), digital video interface (DVI),high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI), and/or display port.Accordingly, the wirelessly utilizable resource 100 may be configured totransmit, via the transceiver 120, those signals, which would have beentransmitted by those physical interfaces listed above, wirelessly to thenetwork device and/or display. For example, the signals that can bewirelessly transmitted via the transceiver 120 may include compressedand/or uncompressed digital video signals (that would have beentransmitted by HDMI and/or VGA), compressed and/or uncompressed audiosignals (that would have been transmitted by HDMI), and/or analog videosignals (that would have been transmitted by VGA).

Further, the wirelessly utilizable resource 100 may be utilized by otherwirelessly utilizable resources (e.g., wirelessly utilizable resources200-1, . . . , 200-5 in FIG. 2) via a device-to-device communicationtechnology that is operable in an EHF band. The communication technologyoperable in the EHF band can include a fifth generation (5G) technologyor later technology. 5G technology may be designed to utilize a higherfrequency portion of the wireless spectrum, including an EHF band (e.g.,ranging from 30 to 300 GHz as designated by the ITU).

As used herein, the device-to-device communication technology refers toa wireless communication performed directly between a transmittingdevice and a receiving device, as compared to a wireless communicationtechnology such as the cellular telecommunication technology and/orthose communication technologies based on an infrastructure mode, bywhich network devices communicate with each other by firstly goingthrough an intermediate network device (e.g., base station and/or AccessPoint (AP)). As such, via the device-to-device communication technology,data to be transmitted by the transmitting device may be directlytransmitted to the receiving device without routing through theintermediate network device (e.g., base station 225), as described inconnection with FIG. 2). In some embodiments. the device-to-devicecommunication may rely on existing infrastructures (e.g., network entitysuch as a base station); therefore, can be an infrastructure mode. Forexample, as described herein, the device-to-device communication whosetransmission timing is scheduled by a base station can be aninfrastructure mode. In some embodiments, the receiving and transmittingdevices may communicate in the absent of the existing infrastructures;therefore, can be an ad-hoc mode. As used herein, “an infrastructuremode” refers to an 802.11 networking framework in which devicescommunicate with each other by first going through an intermediarydevice such as an AP. As used herein, “ad-hoc mode” refers to an 802-11networking framework in which devices communicate with each otherwithout the use of intermediary devices such as an AP. The term “ad-hocmode” can also be referred to as “peer-to-peer mode” or “independentBasic Service Set (MSS).”

As used herein, the cellular telecommunication technology refers to atechnology for wireless communication performed indirectly between atransmitting device and a receiving device via a base station, ascompared to those types of wireless communication technologies includinga device-to-device communication technology. Cellular telecommunicationsmay be those that use resources of a frequency spectrum restricted orregulated by a governmental entity. License frequency spectrum resourcesmay be scheduled for use or access by certain devices and may beinaccessible to other devices. By contrast, resources of shared orunlicensed frequency spectrum may be open and available for use by manydevices without the necessity of a governmental license. Allocatinglicensed and shared or unlicensed frequency resources may presentdifferent technical challenges. In the case of licensed frequencyspectrum, resources may be controlled by a central entity, such as abase station or entity within a core network. While devices usingresources of shared or unlicensed frequency spectrum may contend foraccess (e.g., one device may wait until a communication channel is clearor unused before transmitting on that channel). Sharing resources mayallow for broader utilization at the expense of guaranteed access.

Techniques described herein may account for, or may use, both licensedand unlicensed frequency spectrum. In some communication schemes,device-to-device communication may occur on resources of a licensedfrequency spectrum, and such communications may be scheduled by anetwork entity (e.g., a base station). Such schemes may include certain3GPP-developed protocols, like Long-Term Evolution (LTE) or New Radio(NR). A communication link between devices (e.g. user equipments (UEs))in such schemes may be referred to as sidelink, while a communicationlink from a base station to a device may be referred to as a downlinkand a communication from a device to a base station may be referred toas an uplink.

In other schemes, device-to-device communication may occur on resourcesof unlicensed frequency spectrum, and devices may contend for access thecommunication channel or medium. Such schemes may include WiFi orMulteFire. Hybrid schemes, including licensed-assisted access (LAA) mayalso be employed.

As used herein, an EHF band refers to a band of radio frequencies in anelectromagnetic spectrum ranging from 30 to 300 gigahertz (GHz) asdesignated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and asdescribed further herein. Ranges of radio frequencies as designated bythe ITU can include extremely low frequency (ELF) band ranging from 3 to30 Hz, super low frequency (SLF) band ranging from 30 Hz to 300 Hz,ultra low frequency (ULF) band ranging from 300 Hz to 3 kilohertz (kHz),very low frequency (VLF) band ranging from 3 to 30 kHz, low frequency(LF) band ranging from 30 kHz to 300 kHz, medium frequency (MF) bandranging from 300 kHz to 3 megahertz (MHz), high frequency (HF) bandranging from 3 MHz to 30 MHz, very high frequency (VHF) band rangingfrom 30 MHz to 300 MHz, ultra high frequency (UHF) band ranging from 300MHz to 3 GHz, super high frequency (SHF) band ranging from 3 GHz to 30GHz, extremely high frequency (EHF) band ranging from 30 GHz to 300 GHz,and tremendously high frequency (THF) band ranging from 0.3 to 3terahertz (THz).

A number of embodiments of the present disclosure can provide variousbenefits by utilizing a network communication that is operable in anumber of frequency bands including a higher frequency portion (e.g.,EHF) of the wireless spectrum, as compared to those networkcommunication technologies that utilizes a lower frequency portion ofthe wireless spectrum only. As an example, the EHF bands of 5Gtechnology may enable data to be transferred more rapidly thantechnologies (e.g., including technologies of previous generations)using lower frequency bands only. For example, a 5G network is estimatedto have transfer speeds up to hundreds of times faster than a 4Gnetwork, which may enable data transfer rates in a range of tens ofmegabits per second (MB/s) to tens of GB/s for tens of thousands ofusers at a time (e.g., in a memory pool, as described herein) byproviding a high bandwidth. For example, a 5G network provides fastertransfer rates than the 802.11-based network such as WiFi that operateon unlicensed 2.4 GHz radio frequency band (e.g., Ultra High Frequency(UHF) band). Accordingly, a number of embodiments can enable thewirelessly utilizable resource 100 to be used at a high transfer speedas if the wirelessly utilizable resource 100 were wired to thewirelessly utilizable resource (e.g., wirelessly utilizable resources200-1, . . . , 200-5).

In addition to the EHF band, the communication technology of thecommunication can also be operable in other frequency bands such as theUHF band and the SHF band. As an example, the communication technologycan operate in a frequency band below 2 GHz (e.g., low 5G frequencies)and/or in a frequency band between 2 GHz and 6 GHz (e.g., medium 5Gfrequencies) in addition to a frequency band above 6 GHz (e.g., high 5Gfrequencies). Further details of a number of frequency bands (e.g.,below 6 GHz) in which the 5G technology can operate are defined inRelease 15 of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as NewRadio (NR) Frequency Range 1 (FR1), as shown in Table 1.

TABLE 1 5G operating bands for FR1 NR Operating Duplex Band FrequencyBand (MHz) Mode n1 1920-1980; 2110-2170 FDD n2 1850-1910; 1930-1990 FDDn3 1710-1785; 1805-1880 FDD n5 824-849; 869-894 FDD n7 2500-2570;2620-2690 FDD n8 880-915; 925-960 FDD n20 791-821; 832-862 FDD n28703-748; 758-803 FDD n38 2570-2620 TDD n41 2496-2690 TDD n50 1432-1517TDD n51 1427-1432 TDD n66 1710-1780; 2110-2200 FDD n70 1695-1710;1995-2020 FDD n71 617-652; 663-698 FDD n74 1427-1470; 1475-1518 FDD n751432-1517 SDL n76 1427-1432 SDL n78 3300-3800 TDD n77 3300-4200 TDD n794400-5000 TDD n80 1710-1785 SUL n81 880-915 SUL n82 832-862 SUL n83703-748 SUL n84 1920-1980 SUL

Further, details of a number of frequency bands (e.g., above 6 GHz) inwhich the 5G technology can operate are defined in Release 15 of the3GPP as NR Frequency Range 2 (FR2), as shown in Table 2.

TABLE 2 5G operating bands for FR2 NR Operating Duplex Band FREQUENCYBAND (MHz) Mode n257 26500-29500 TDD n258 24250-27500 TDD n26037000-40000 TDD

In some embodiments, a number of frequency bands in which acommunication technology (e.g., device-to-device communicationtechnology and/or cellular telecommunication technology using 5Gtechnology) utilized for the communication 106 may be operable canfurther include the THF band in addition to those frequency bands suchas the SHF, UHF, and EHF bands. The memory, transceiver, and/or theprocessor described herein may be a resource that can be wirelesslyutilizable via respective communication technologies such as 5Gtechnology.

As used herein, FDD stands for frequency division duplex, TDD stands fortime division duplex, SUL stands for supplementary uplink, and SDLstands for supplementary downlink. FDD and TDD are each a particulartype of a duplex communication system. As used herein, a duplexcommunication system refers to a point-to point system having twoconnected parties and/or devices that can communicate with one anotherin both directions. TDD refers to duplex communication links whereuplink is separated from downlink by the allocation of different timeslots in the same frequency band. FDD refers to a duplex communicationsystem, in which a transmitter and receiver operate at differentfrequency bands. SUL/SDL refer to a point-to-point communication systemhaving two connected parties and/or devices that can communicate withone another in a unilateral direction (e.g., either via an uplink or adownlink, but not both).

The 5G technology may be selectively operable in one or more of low,medium, and/or high 5G frequency bands based on characteristics of, forexample, the communication. As an example, the low 5G frequency may beutilized in some use cases (e.g., enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB),ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC), massivemachine-type communications (mMTC)), in which extremely wide area needsto be covered by the 5G technology. As an example, the medium 5Gfrequency may be utilized in some use cases (e.g., eMBB, URLLC, mMTC),in which higher data rate than that of the low 5G frequencies is desiredfor the communication technology. As an example, the high 5G frequencymay be utilized in some use cases (e.g., eMBB), in which extremely highdata rate is desired for the 5G technology.

As used herein, eMBB, URLLC, mMTC each refers to one of three categoriesof which the ITU has defined as services that the 5G technology canprovide. As defined by the ITU, eMBB aims to meet the people's demandfor an increasingly digital lifestyle and focuses on services that havehigh requirements for bandwidth, such as high definition (HD) videos,virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). As defined by the ITU,URLLC aims to meet expectations for the demanding digital industry andfocuses on latency-sensitive services, such as assisted and automateddriving, and remote management. As defined by the ITU, mMTC aims to meetdemands for a further developed digital society and focuses on servicesthat include high requirements for connection density, such as smartcity and smart agriculture.

As used herein, a channel bandwidth refers to a frequency range occupiedby data and/or instructions when being transmitted (e.g., by anindividual carrier) over a particular frequency band. As an example, achannel bandwidth of 100 MHz may indicate a frequency range from 3700MHZ to 3800 MHZ, which can be occupied by data and/or instructions whenbeing transmitted over n77 frequency band, as shown in Table 1. Asindicated in Release 15 of the 3GPP, a number of different channelbandwidth such as a channel bandwidth equal to or greater than 50 MHz(e.g., 50 MHz, 100 MHz, 200 MHz, and/or 400 Mhz) may be utilized for the5G technology.

Embodiments are not limited to a particular communication technology;however, various types of communication technologies may be employed forthe communication. The various types of communication technologies ofthe wirelessly utilizable resources (e.g., wirelessly utilizableresource 200-1, . . . , 200-5 in FIG. 2) can utilize may include, forexample, cellular telecommunication technology including 0-5 generationsbroadband cellular network technologies, device-to-device tocommunication including Bluetooth, Zigbee, and/or 5G, and/or otherwireless communication utilizing an intermediary device (e.g., WiFiutilizing an AP), although embodiments are not so limited.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of examples of a system including wirelesslyutilizable resources in accordance with a number of embodiments of thepresent disclosure. As illustrated in FIG. 2, the system 223 may, in anumber of embodiments, include a plurality of elements. For example, theplurality of elements of the system 223 may be a number of wirelesslyutilizable resources 200-1, . . . , 200-5 (collectively referred to aswirelessly utilizable resources 200) and/or a base station 225. At leasta portion of the wirelessly utilizable resources 200 may include a localcommodity DRAM and may utilize the resources of the wirelesslyutilizable resource 200-1 as supplemental resources. The wirelesslyutilizable resource 200-1 includes resources (e.g., a memory resource, atransceiver, and/or a processor) at least of which can be wirelesslyutilizable (e.g., shared) by the wirelessly utilizable resources 200.

The wirelessly utilizable resources 200 can be various user devices. Asan example, the wirelessly utilizable resources 200 can be computingdevices such as laptops, phones, tablets, desktops, wearable smartdevices, etc. In some embodiments, the user devices may be mobile aswell. As used herein, a “mobile user device” may be a device that isportable and utilizes a portable power supply. In a number ofembodiments, the wirelessly utilizable resources 200 can include a localDRAM and a memory resource that can be included in the wirelesslyutilizable resource 200-1 and utilizable by the wirelessly utilizableresources 200 and may be supplemental to the wirelessly utilizableresources 200.

The wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 including a wirelesslyutilizable resource can be a wireless electronic component of at leastone of the wirelessly utilizable resources 200. As used herein, “anelectronic component” refers to an electronic component that can provideadditional functions to a network device and/or assist the networkdevice in furthering a particular function. For example, an electroniccomponent may include various types of components (e.g., expansion card)such as a video card, sound card, primary storage devices (e.g., mainmemory), and/or secondary (auxiliary) storage devices (e.g., flashmemory, optical discs, magnetic disk, and/or magnetic tapes), althoughembodiments are not so limited. As used herein, “a wireless electroniccomponent” refers to an electronic component that is wirelessly coupledto a network device.

Accordingly, as an example, the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 maybe wirelessly utilized by the wirelessly utilizable resources 200 forvarious functions. As an example, the wirelessly utilizable resource200-1 may be utilized for graphical operations that would requirehigh-performance processing and/or memory resources such as memoryintensive games and/or high quality video associated with a high degreeof resolutions and/or frame rates. Further, as an example, thewirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 may be utilized for non-graphicaloperations such as a number of operations of applications associatedwith machine-learning algorithms that would require high-performanceprocessing and/or memory resources.

In some embodiments, at least a portion of the wirelessly utilizableresources 200 may be a small form factor (SFF) device such as a handheldcomputing device (e.g., personal computer (PC)). A degree of performancethat can be often provided by the SSF device can be relatively low dueto its limited size and volume. Further, the SSF device may lack anumber of channels by which expansion cards such as a high-performancevideo card can be added. Accordingly, providing a mechanism towirelessly add a high-performance video card such as the wirelesslyutilizable resource 200-1 to the SSF device can provide benefits such asperforming, at the SSF device, memory-intensive operations (e.g., memoryintensive games and/or high quality video associated with a high degreeof resolutions and/or frame rates), which would have not been properlyperformed at the SSF device absent the wirelessly utilizable resources.

In a number of embodiments, the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 maybe wirelessly utilized via a device-to-device communication technology,for example, by the wirelessly utilizable resources 200 as shown in FIG.2. For example, as illustrated in connection with FIG. 1, thedevice-to-device communication technology can operate in higherfrequency portion of the wireless spectrum, including an UHF, SHF, EHFand/or THF band, as defined according to the ITU. However, embodimentsare not so limited. For example, other network communicationtechnologies of a device-to-device communication technology may beemployed within the system 223. As an example, the wirelessly utilizableresource 200-1 may communicate with at least one of the wirelesslyutilizable resources 200 via a different type of device-to-devicecommunication technology such as a Bluetooth, Zigbee, and/or other typesof device-to-device communication technologies.

As shown in FIG. 2, the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 may bewirelessly utilized by the wirelessly utilizable resources 200 via thebase station 225. As an example, a communication technology that can beutilized between the wirelessly utilizable resources 200-4 and thewirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 may be a cellular telecommunicationtechnology. In a number of embodiments, the cellular telecommunicationtechnology that can be utilized for communicating between the wirelesslyutilizable resource 200-4 and the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1can include a 5G cellular telecommunication technology that operates inat least one of a number of frequency bands including the UHF, SHF, EHF,and/or THF.

The term “base station” may be used in the context of mobile telephony,wireless computer networking and/or other wireless communications. As anexample, a base station 225 may include a GPS receiver at a knownposition, while in wireless communications it may include a transceiverconnecting a number of other devices to one another and/or to a widerarea. As an example, in mobile telephony, a base station 225 may providea connection between mobile phones and the wider telephone network. Asan example, in a computing network, a base station 225 may include atransceiver acting as a router for electrical components (e.g., memoryresource 101 and processing resource 108 in FIG. 1) in a network,possibly connecting them to a WAN, WLAN, the Internet, and/or the cloud.For wireless networking, a base station 225 may include a radiotransceiver that may serve as a hub of a local wireless network. As anexample, a base station 225 also may be a gateway between a wirednetwork and the wireless network. As an example, a base station 225 maybe a wireless communications station installed at a fixed location.

In a number of embodiments, the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 mayutilize the same network protocol and same transceiver (e.g., RFtransceiver) for a device-to-device communication technology (e.g., 5Gdevice-to-device communication technology) as well as a cellulartelecommunication technology (e.g., 5G cellular telecommunicationtechnology), as described in connection with FIG. 1. As an example, thewirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 may utilize the same networkprotocol in communicating with the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-4(e.g., via a cellular telecommunication technology through the basestation 225) as well as with the wirelessly utilizable resources 200(e.g., via a device-to-device communication technology).

In a number of embodiments, various types of network protocols may beutilized for communicating data within the system 223 (e.g., among thewirelessly utilizable resources 200, between the wirelessly utilizableresources 200, between the wirelessly utilizable resources 200 and thebase station 225, etc.). The various types of network protocols mayinclude the time-division multiple access (TDMA), code-division multipleaccess (CDMA), space-division multiple access (SDMA), frequency divisionmultiple access (FDMA), orthogonal FDMA (OFDMA), single-carrier(SC)-FDMA, and/or non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), althoughembodiments are not so limited.

In some embodiments, cellular telecommunication technologies (e.g.,between the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 and the wirelesslyutilizable resource 200-4) may be performed via (e.g., include) a NOMA.As used herein, the NOMA refers to a network protocol that separatessignals according to a power domain. For example, signals may bereceived (e.g., from the user) in an intentionally-introduced mutualinterference and can be separated from each other according todifferences on their power levels. As such, the signals received and tobe processed pursuant to the NOMA may be non-orthogonal in time,frequency, and/or code, as compared to those orthogonal multiple-access(OMA) schemes, in which different users are allocated according toorthogonal resources, either in time, frequency, and/or code domain.Accordingly, utilizing a non-orthogonal network protocols such as theNOMA may provide benefits such as reduced latencies associated withseparating users based on factors other than power domain, which mayenable massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO).

In a number of embodiments, the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 maybe utilized by the wirelessly utilizable resources 200 at a discretetime. For example, the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 may beutilized by the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-3 during a subsequentperiod of a particular period during which the wirelessly utilizableresource 200-1 was, for example, utilized by the wirelessly utilizableresource 200-2. As such, the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 may beutilized by each of the wirelessly utilizable resources 200 at differenttimes (e.g., non-overlapping time periods). However, embodiments are notso limited. For example, the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 may besimultaneously utilized by the wirelessly utilizable resources 200. Asan example, the wirelessly utilizable resource 200-1 may be physicallyand/or logically partitioned such that the partitioned portions may besimultaneously utilized by the wirelessly utilizable resources

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of examples of a network 330 for wirelesslycoupling selected wirelessly utilizable resources for formation of amemory pool in accordance with a number of embodiments of the presentdisclosure. The network 330 may, in a number of embodiments, include aplurality of elements (e.g., two or more vehicles) that may be includedin a memory pool, as described herein.

As illustrated in FIG. 3, the elements that may potentially be includedin the network 330 may, in a number of embodiments, be a number ofunitary vehicles 331 and/or transport vehicles 333. In some embodimentsthe network 330 may potentially include a number of base stations 325.

A unitary vehicle 331, as described herein, is intended to mean avehicle that may be owned, leased, rented, or borrowed to enable travelfrom an origin to an intended destination, or vice versa. The unitaryvehicle 331 may be driven or directed to travel by a person (e.g., adriver) and/or autonomously (e.g., via a memory resource coupled to aprocessing resource, as described herein). The travel may be by theunitary vehicle 331 and a number of passengers (e.g., the driver and/ora number of other persons) or the vehicle itself acting as an autonomousvehicle. Examples of a unitary vehicle 331 may include: an automobile(e.g., a car, pickup truck, mini-van, personally-operated truck and/orvan, sports utility vehicle, etc.); a motorcycle; taxi cab; bus; alimousine; airplane; helicopter; aerial drone; watercraft (e.g., aprivately owned and/or commercial boat or ship operable in a portenvironment and/or shipping lanes), jet-ski, submarine, locomotive(e.g., connected to a number of railway cars) operable on a track; andmobile equipment (e.g., a manually-driven or autonomous pallet jack,bin, cart, etc.) operated within and/or outside a commercial orindustrial facility; among many other such possibilities.

A transport vehicle 333, as described herein, is intended to mean avehicle that may be owned, leased, rented, or borrowed to enabletransport of goods and/or services (e.g., shipment of a commerciallyprovided product or products) from an origin to an intended destination,or vice versa. The transport vehicle 333 may be driven or directed totravel by a person (e.g., a driver) and/or autonomously (e.g., via amemory resource coupled to a processing resource, as described herein).The travel may be by the transport vehicle 333 and a number ofpassengers (e.g., the driver and/or a number of other persons), whichalso may include the transported product or products (e.g., in a loadbed of the transport vehicle 333) or the transport vehicle itself actingas an autonomous vehicle. Examples of a transport vehicle 333 mayinclude: a commercially-operated truck and/or van; a sequence of trucksand/or vans operable as an automotive train, fleet, and/or convoy (e.g.,on or in a designated lane on a road, highway, interstate, etc.); asequence of commercially-operated boats and/or ships operable in a portenvironment and/or shipping lanes; a sequence of commercially-operatedaerial drones operable on or in a designated airstrip, runway, and/orflight path; among many other such possibilities.

A base station 325, as also shown at 225 and described in connectionwith FIG. 2 and elsewhere herein, is intended to mean a land station ina mobile service (e.g., according to International TelecommunicationUnion's (ITU) Radio Regulations). The term may be used in the context ofmobile telephony, wireless computer networking and other wirelesscommunications, and/or in land surveying. A base station 325 may includea GPS receiver at a known position, while in wireless communications itmay include a transceiver connecting a number of other devices to oneanother and/or to a wider area. In mobile telephony, a base station 325may provide a connection between mobile phones and the wider telephonenetwork. In a computing network, a base station 325 may include atransceiver acting as a router for compute components (e.g., memoryresources 101 and processing resources 108) in a network (e.g., a memorypool), possibly connecting them to a WAN, WLAN, the Internet, and/or thecloud. For wireless networking, a base station 325 may include a radiotransceiver that may serve as a hub of a local wireless network. A basestation 325 also may be a gateway between a wired network and thewireless network. A base station 325 may be a wireless communicationsstation installed at a fixed location.

In a geographical area with a relatively low density of memory resources101, processing resources 108, and/or transceiver resources 120 (e.g.,rural areas relative to urban areas, as described in connection withFIG. 4), the low density may reduce likelihood of construction of a newbase station (e.g., by making such construction commercially nonviable,among other possible reasons). As a result, wireless communication toenable formation of a memory pool may be enabled by installing arepeater. A repeater is a type of base station that extends the range ofmobile radio transceivers (e.g., that wirelessly communicate viatransceiver resources 120). A repeater may include a bidirectionalamplifier used to improve reception of wireless signals. A repeatersystem also may include an antenna that receives and transmits signalfrom, for example, base stations, cell towers, coaxial cables, etc., viaa signal amplifier and/or a rebroadcast antenna. Some rural, suburban,and/or urban environments, however, may include a plurality of basestations within a particular area (e.g., as determined by areception/transmission ranges of cell towers and/or possible obstructionof the same by infrastructure, such as buildings, etc.).

Hence, in a number of embodiments, the network 330 illustrated in FIG. 3may enable wireless sharing of data by formation of a memory poolbetween a plurality 332 of the unitary vehicles 331, a plurality 334 oftransport vehicles 333, and/or a plurality 336 of base stations 325.Alternatively or in addition, in a number of embodiments, the network330 may enable wireless sharing of data by formation of a memory poolbetween 338 at least one of the plurality 332 of the unitary vehicles331 and at least one of the plurality 334 of the transport vehicles 333.The network 330 also may enable wireless sharing of data by formation ofa memory pool between 337 at least one of the plurality 332 of theunitary vehicles 331 and at least one of the plurality 336 of the basestations 325 and/or a memory pool between 339 at least one of theplurality 332 of the transport vehicles 333 and at least one of theplurality 336 of the base stations 325. Alternatively or in addition, ina number of embodiments, a memory pool may be formed between at leastone of the plurality 332 of the unitary vehicles 331 and/or at least oneof the plurality 334 of the transport vehicles 333 and infrastructure(e.g., houses, police/fire/news stations, businesses, factories, etc.,as shown at 444, 445, 446) that includes memory resources 101,processing resources 108, and/or transceiver resources 120 as describedherein.

Accordingly, as described herein, a first processing resource 208-1 maybe coupled to a first memory resource 201-1 and a wireless base station225 may be coupled to the first processing resource 208-1 (e.g., asshown and described in connection with FIG. 2 and elsewhere herein). Thefirst memory resource 201-1, the first processing resource 208-1, andthe base station 225 may be configured to enable formation of a memorypool between the first memory resource 201-1 and a second memoryresource (e.g., as shown at 201-4 in FIG. 2) at (e.g., positioned on) avehicle responsive to a request to access the second memory resourcefrom the first processor transmitted via the base station. The “vehicle”is intended to mean one or more vehicles from among the plurality ofunitary vehicles 331 and/or the plurality of transport vehicles 333illustrated in FIG. 3. In a number of embodiments, the base station 225may be further configured to transmit additional data from the firstmemory resource 201-1 to the vehicle responsive to another request fromthe vehicle or a network management device (e.g., of the cloudprocessing resource 122).

The first memory resource 201-1, the first processing resource 208-1coupled to the first memory resource 201-1, and a transceiver resource220-1 coupled to the first processing resource 208-1 may be configuredto enable formation of a memory pool between the first memory resource201-1 and a second memory resource 201-4 responsive to a request toaccess the second memory resource 101-4 (e.g., the request received fromthe first processing resource 208-1). A controller 110 may be coupled tothe first processing resource 208-1.

The controller 110 may, in a number of embodiments, be configured toselectably determine a particular functionality, as described herein,for which data is to be shared by the second memory resource 201-4 withthe first memory resource 201-1. The controller 110 may be furtherconfigured to selectably determine, responsive to prioritization ofrequested data, a particular memory device (e.g., determined from memorydevices 103-1, 103-2, . . . , 103-N) of the first memory resource 201-1to which data is to be shared by being received, via the base station225 (e.g., using the transceiver resources 220), from the second memoryresource 201-4 wirelessly coupled to the base station 225. For example,a request from the first processing resource 208-1 (e.g., positioned onor coupled to the base station 225) for the access to the second memoryresource 201-4 may be prioritized such that the first processingresource 208-1 processes the data received from the second memoryresource 201-4 to enable, in a number of embodiments, direction oftransit of a vehicle (e.g., an autonomous vehicle) before a response maybe provided to a request for data that is received, by being wirelesslycoupled to the base station 225, from another second processing resource208-2 wirelessly coupled to the first memory resource 201-1.

The controller 110 may be further configured to selectably determine,responsive to prioritization of requested data, a particular memorydevice 103 of the first memory resource 201-1 from which data is to beshared by being transmitted, via the base station 225, to the secondprocessing resource 208-4 coupled to the second memory resource 201-4.For example, a request from the second processing resource 208-4 (e.g.,formed on an autonomous vehicle) for the access to the first memoryresource 201-1 may be prioritized such that the first processingresource 208-1 processes the data received from the second memoryresource 201-4 to enable, in a number of embodiments, direction oftransit of the autonomous vehicle before a response may be provided to arequest for data that is received, by being wirelessly coupled to thebase station 225, from another second processing resource 208-2 coupledto the first memory resource 201-1. The second memory resource 201-4coupled to the second processing resource 208-4 may be configured toshare data between the second memory resource 201-4 and the first memoryresource 201-1 by being wirelessly coupled to the base station 225. Thefirst memory resource 201-1, the second memory resource 201-4, and thebase station 225 may be configured (e.g., via the transceiver resources220) to enable performance of an operation directed by the firstprocessing resource 208-1 based upon processing of the data sharedbetween the first memory resource 201-1 and the second memory resource201-4. The performance of the operation by the first processing resource208-1 may be enabled based upon processing of data values shared by thesecond processing resource 208-4 coupled to the second memory resource201-4. The data values shared by the second processing resource 208-4may, in a number of embodiments, include at least one data valuedifferent from data values previously stored by the first memoryresource 201-1. Storage of the at least one different data value mayenable performance of an operation that is different based uponprocessing of code including the at least one different data valuerelative to performance of an operation based upon processing of thecode prior to the at least one different data value being stored.

The base station 225 can include or be coupled to a first radiofrequency (RF) transceiver as the transceiver resource 220-1 and thefirst processing resource 208-1. The transceiver resource 220-1 and/orthe base station 225 may be wirelessly couplable to a cloud processingresource 122, as described herein, to enable formation of the memorypool. The transceiver resources 220 may, in a number of embodiments,include a first RF transceiver (e.g., as shown at 663 and described inconnection with FIG. 6) coupled to the first processing resource 208-1and a second RF transceiver coupled to a second processing resource208-4 to enable formation, by being wirelessly coupled to the basestation 225, of the memory pool between the first memory resource 201-1and the second memory resource 201-4.

The second memory resource 201-4 and the second processing resource208-4 may, in a number of embodiments, be on a first vehicle (e.g., anautonomous vehicle) and another second memory resource 201-2 and anothersecond processing resource 208-2 may be on a vehicle (e.g., a secondautonomous vehicle). The data shared by two or more of the second memoryresources (e.g., selected from memory resources 201-2, . . . , 201-5,among possible additional memory resources) by being wirelessly coupledto the base station 225 may enable direction of transit to an intendeddestination by the first vehicle and/or the second vehicle. The transitmay be directed (e.g., by controller 110) to include performance of atleast one operation by, for example, a first autonomous vehicle or asecond autonomous vehicle that is different from an operation performedbased upon data values previously stored by the respective first memoryresource 201-1 or second memory resource 201-4.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an example of environments thatcorrespond to a range of densities of wirelessly utilizable resourcescouplable for formation of a memory pool in accordance with a number ofembodiments of the present disclosure. The range of densities 440 ofresources may, in a number of embodiments, correspond to a “low” densityof such resources, as shown at or near the left side of FIG. 4, througha “high” density of such resources, as shown at or near the right side.

A density range 440 of such resources may correspond to a number ofresources 441 located (e.g., fixedly and/or movably at a particularpoint in time and/or in a particular time period) within a particulararea (e.g., geographically defined and/or defined by base station, celltower, cloud coverage, among other possibilities for defining the area).The density of resources 440 and/or the number of resources 441 in aparticular area may, in a number of embodiments, contribute todetermination of a size of a memory pool between a plurality of suchresources that are coupled to wirelessly share data. For example, a lowdensity of such resources may enable formation of a memory pool thatincludes fewer such resources than may be included in a memory poolformed where there is a high density of such resources, with the memorypool potentially including an intermediate number of such resourceswhere the density 440 is between low and high.

The number of resources 441 in a particular area may correspond to anumber of memory resources 101, processing resources 108, transceiverresources 120, and/or base stations 425 within the particular area. Thenumber of resources 441 may be formed and/or positioned on, in a numberof embodiments, a corresponding number of unitary vehicles 431,transport vehicles 433, base stations 425, and/or infrastructure (e.g.,houses 444, police/fire/news stations, and/or businesses 445, factoriesand/or corporate offices, etc., 446) located within the area and/orwithin a proximity of an intended route or potential alternative routesto be transited by the unitary vehicles 431 and/or transport vehicles433. An increasing density 440, an increasing number of such resources441, and/or an increasing number of different types of such resources(e.g., a mixture of unitary vehicles 431, transport vehicles 433, numberof base stations 425, and/or infrastructure 444, 445, 446) within anarea may correspond to an increasing complexity 442 of such resources inthe area.

An area having a low density 440, number 441, and/or complexity 442 ofresources may, for example, be a rural area, as shown at or near theleft side of FIG. 4. Such a rural area may include a number of routes oftransit 443 (e.g., widely separated interstate freeways, state and/orcounty highways, etc.) that may correspond to potential intended routesof transit for unitary vehicles 431 and/or transport vehicles 433. Sucha rural area may, at a particular time point and/or in a particular timeperiod, have as few as two unitary vehicles 431-1 or as few as twotransport vehicles 433 and/or as few as one unitary vehicle 431-1 andone transport vehicle 433 to form a memory pool. In some situations,such a rural area and/or a portion of the routes of transit 443 may ormay not include a base station and/or infrastructure to contribute toformation of the memory pool. Accordingly, the memory pool may be formedvia direct wireless coupling between processing resources of the unitaryvehicles 431 and/or transport vehicles 433.

An area having an intermediate density 440, number 441, and/orcomplexity 442 of resources may, for example, be a suburban area, asshown at or near the middle of FIG. 4. Such a suburban area maypotentially include the routes of transit 443 for unitary vehicles 431and/or transport vehicles 433 present in the rural areas. Such asuburban area, at a particular time point and/or in a particular timeperiod, may be more likely to have at least two unitary vehicles 431-2to form a memory pool. The suburban area may or may not include anytransport vehicles 433 at a particular time point and/or in a particulartime period. Such a suburban area may be more likely to include at leastone base station 425-1 and/or infrastructure 444, 445 to contribute toformation of the memory pool. Accordingly, the memory pool may be formedvia direct or indirect wireless coupling between processing resources ofthe unitary vehicles 431-2 and/or transport vehicles 433. In a number ofembodiments, the memory pool may be formed between the processingresources of the unitary vehicles 431 and/or transport vehicles 433 byindirect wireless coupling via the base station 425-1 and/or theinfrastructure 444, 445.

An area having a high density 440, number 441, and/or complexity 442 ofresources may, for example, be an urban area, as shown at or near theright side of FIG. 4. Such an urban area may potentially include theroutes of transit 443 for unitary vehicles 431 and/or transport vehicles433 present in the rural and/or suburban areas. Such an urban area, at aparticular time point and/or in a particular time period, may be morelikely to have more than two unitary vehicles 431-3 to form a memorypool. The urban area may or may not include any transport vehicles 433at a particular time point and/or in a particular time period. Such anurban area may be more likely to include more than one base station425-2 and/or infrastructure 446 (e.g., in addition to infrastructure444, 445) to contribute to formation of the memory pool. Accordingly,the memory pool may be formed via direct wireless coupling betweenprocessing resources of the unitary vehicles 431-3 and/or transportvehicles 433. In a number of embodiments, the memory pool may be formedbetween the processing resources of the unitary vehicles 431 and/ortransport vehicles 433 by indirect wireless coupling via the basestations 425-2 and/or the infrastructure 444, 445, 446.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a route forvehicles upon which the wirelessly utilizable resources may beimplemented for formation of a memory pool in accordance with a numberof embodiments of the present disclosure. The route 550 may, in a numberof embodiments, represent an intended route upon which the vehicles aretransiting toward an intended destination. The intended destination mayvary dependent upon the individual vehicle being considered. The route550 may be a road, street, highway, interstate, etc., in a rural,suburban, and/or urban area (e.g., as described in connection with FIG.4).

The route 550 may be utilized for transit of, at a particular timeand/or in a particular time period, a number of transport vehicles(e.g., as shown at 533-1, 533-2, . . . , 533-M) and/or a number ofunitary vehicles (e.g., as shown at 531-1, 531-2, . . . , 531-0). Theroute 550 or at least a portion 551 of the route (e.g., one or morelanes) may, in a number of embodiments, be designated for transit of anumber of transport vehicles 533. For example, the portion 551 of theroute 550 may be designated, or at least utilized, for a plurality ofautomated transport vehicles 533-1, 533-2, . . . , 533-M transiting insequence (e.g., as a convoy) toward an intended destination, although atleast some of the transport vehicles may continue on toward variousother destinations after reaching the intended destination.

Alternatively or in addition, the route 550 or at least a portion 552,553 of the route 550 (e.g., one or more lanes) may, in a number ofembodiments, be designated for transit of a number of unitary vehicles531. For example, the portion 552, 553 of the route 550 may bedesignated, or at least utilized, for automated unitary vehicles 531-1,531-2, . . . , 531-0 each transiting toward an intended destination,which may, in a number of embodiments, vary between each unitaryvehicle. At least one portion 552 (e.g., lane) of the route 550 uponwhich the unitary vehicles 531 may transit may be adjacent (e.g., nextto) a portion 551 designated for transit of transport vehicles 533. Forexample, a lane designated for transit of unitary vehicles may bepositioned on each side of a lane or lanes designated for transit oftransport vehicles. The portion shown at 553 may represent one or morelanes designated for transit of unitary vehicles 531 extending outwardrelative to the portion 552 adjacent the portion 551 designated fortransit of transport vehicles 533.

In some embodiments, each portion 551 (e.g., lane) designated fortransit of transport vehicles 533 may be wider than each portion 552,553 (e.g., lane) designated for transit of unitary vehicles 531. In someembodiments, each portion 551 designated for transit of transportvehicles 533 and/or each portion 552, 553 designated for transit ofunitary vehicles 531 may be equipped with sensors (e.g., that areconfigured to wirelessly communicate with processing resources 108 onthe vehicles) to contribute to determining and/or tracking positions ofthe transport vehicles 533 and/or unitary vehicles and/or to verify thatthe transport vehicles 533 and/or unitary vehicles are transiting in theappropriate portions of the route 550.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of wirelesslyutilizable resources selectably coupled to circuitry to enable formationof a memory pool in accordance with a number of embodiments of thepresent disclosure. The resources selectably coupled to the circuitry660 illustrated in FIG. 6 include a processing resource 608 and channels605-1, . . . , 605-N coupled to memory devices included in a memoryresource (e.g., as shown at 103-1, . . . , 103-N and 101, respectively,in FIG. 1). The processing resource 608 is illustrated to include acontroller 610. The controller 610 is illustrated as being formed from aplurality of sections (e.g., sections 610-1, 610-2, . . . , 610-N) forpurposes of clarity in illustrating connections with the circuitry shownin FIG. 6, although the controller 610 may be formed as a singlecomponent (e.g., as shown in FIG. 1). As described further herein, thecircuitry (e.g., as shown at 618 and/or 661) and/or the controller 610may be coupled to a number of RF transceivers (e.g., as shown at 663-1,663-2, . . . , 663-N) of the transceiver resource 120 to enabletransmission of requests for and/or receipt of wirelessly shared datafor formation of a memory pool. The resources just described each may,in a number of embodiments, be configured to perform at least a portionof the functions described in connection with FIGS. 1-5 and 7-8 inaddition to those described in connection with FIG. 6.

Controller section 610-1 may be selectably coupled via I/O line 618-1(e.g., of the bus 118 described in connection with FIG. 1) to thechannel 605-1 to issue a command and/or an address from the processingresource 608 related to performance of a particular functionality to bedirected to an appropriate one or more memory devices selectably coupledto the I/O line 618-1. The command and/or the address may enableretrieval via I/O line 618-1 of previously stored data from theappropriate memory devices and/or an appropriate number of rows of amemory device to enable performance of the particular functionality bythe controller section 610-1.

In a number of embodiments, I/O line 618-1 may, via a command and/or anaddress, enable input of newly received data (e.g., received viaformation of a memory pool between a first memory resource 201-1 and asecond memory resource 201-2 by processing resource 608) to be stored byappropriate memory devices and/or appropriate rows of a memory device toenable improved performance of the particular functionality by thecontroller section 610-1. Alternatively or in addition, I/O line 618-1may, via a command and/or an address, enable output of previously storeddata (e.g., output via formation of a memory pool with second memoryresource 201-2 by processing resource 608) from appropriate memorydevices and/or appropriate rows of a memory device in response to arequest for such data by another processing resource (e.g., secondprocessing resource 208-2).

The particular command and/or address issued by the processing resource608 via controller section 610-1 may selectably determine whether I/Oline 618-1 is configured to enable the input of the newly received dataor the output of the previously stored data versus being configured toenable retrieval of previously stored data to enable performance of theparticular functionality by the controller section 610-1. As such, afirst command and/or address issued via controller section 610-1 maydirect that a switch 661-1 of the circuitry associated with I/O line618-1 be opened to disconnect channel 605-1 from controller section610-1 while connecting (e.g., coupling) a portion of the I/O line 618-1that remains connected to channel 605-1 to RF transceiver 663-1 toenable the input of the newly received data or the output of thepreviously stored data. A second command and/or address issued viacontroller section 610-1 may direct that the switch 661-1 of thecircuitry associated with I/O line 618-1 be closed to connect (e.g.,couple) channel 605-1 with controller section 610-1, while disconnectingRF transceiver 663-1, to enable the retrieval of the previously storeddata and enable the performance of the particular functionality by thecontroller section 610-1. Other controller sections, I/O lines,channels, switches, and/or RF transceivers (e.g., as shown at 610-N−1,618-N, 505-N, 661-N, and/or 663-N−1, respectively) may operatesimilarly.

Accordingly, the processing resource 608, which includes controllersections 610-1, . . . , 610-N−1, may be selectably coupled to aplurality of switches 661-1, . . . , 661-N for a corresponding pluralityof channels 605-1, . . . , 605-N of a memory resource. The controllersections may be configured to select, responsive to selective activationof a particular switch, which particular channel is enabled to transmit,via a RF transceiver 663-1, . . . , 663-N−1 selectably coupled to theparticular channel, data stored in memory of the particular channelresponsive to a request received from a second processing resourcecoupled to the second memory resource. The controller sections may befurther configured to receive, via the RF transceiver selectably coupledto the particular channel, data from the second memory resource to bestored in the memory of the particular channel responsive to a requesttransmitted by the processing resource 608.

Controller section 610-2 of processing resource 608 may be selectablycoupled to RF transceiver 663-2 to issue (e.g., transmit) a request toother processing resources (e.g., second processing resource 208-2) forformation of a memory pool to wirelessly share data. The request may, ina number of embodiments, be for data that corresponds to a particularfunctionality having data already stored by appropriate memory devicesand/or appropriate rows of a memory device selectably coupled to channel605-1. Upon receiving a response from at least one other processingresource (e.g., second processing resource 208-2) that such data isstored and/or is available at a particular address in a memory resource(e.g., second memory resource 201-2), the processing resource 608 mayissue a command and/or address via controller section 610-2 forformation of the memory pool and/or access to the data to be wirelesslyshared. Other controller sections and/or RF transceivers (e.g., as shownat 610-N and/or 663-N, respectively) may operate similarly.

In number of embodiments, a first memory resource (e.g., 201-4) may becoupled to a first processing resource 208-4 at a vehicle (e.g., one ormore vehicles from among the plurality of unitary vehicles 331 and/orthe plurality of transport vehicles 333 shown in FIG. 3). A secondmemory resource (e.g., 201-1) may be coupled to a second processingresource (e.g., 208-1) of an entity (e.g., including a transceiverresource 220-1) in a stationary (e.g., fixed) radio access network(RAN). The stationary RAN may utilize certain 3GPP-developed protocols,although embodiments are not so limited. A base station 325 may becoupled to the second processing resource 208-1 of the stationary RANand in wireless communication with the vehicle. The first memoryresource 201-4, the second memory resource 201-1, and the base station325 may be configured to enable formation of a memory pool between thefirst memory resource and the second memory resource responsive to arequest to access the second memory resource via the base station 325.The first processing resource 208-4 or the second processing resource208-1, or both, may be configured to determine availability of eitherthe first memory resource 201-4 or the second memory resource 201-1based upon a workload being performed in a particular time period by thefirst memory resource or the second memory resource, or both.

A controller 110 may be configured to contribute to formation, by beingwirelessly coupled to the base station 325, of the memory pool to sharedata responsive to determination that the data stored by an availablesecond memory resource 201-1 corresponds to data stored by an availablefirst memory resource 201-4. The controller 110 may be furtherconfigured to contribute to transmission, via the wirelessly coupledbase station 325, of the data from the available second memory resource201-1 to a corresponding first memory resource 201-4. The datatransmitted, via the wirelessly coupled base station 325, from theavailable second memory resource 201-1 may be stored by thecorresponding first memory resource 201-4.

The first processing resource 208-4 or the second processing resource208-1 may be selectably coupled to a plurality of switches (e.g., 661-1,. . . , 661-N) for a corresponding plurality of channels (e.g., 605-1, .. . , 605-N) of the respective first memory resource 201-4 or therespective second memory resource 201-1. The controller 110 may beconfigured to select, responsive to selective activation of a particularswitch, which particular channel is enabled to transmit, via the RANselectably coupled to the particular channel, data stored in memory ofthe particular channel responsive to a request received, via the basestation 325, from the first processing resource 208-4 or the secondprocessing resource 208-1. The controller 110 may be further configuredto select, responsive to selective activation of a particular switch,which particular channel is enabled to receive, via the RAN selectablycoupled to the particular channel, data from the second memory resource201-1 to be stored in the memory of the particular channel responsive tothe request transmitted from the first processing resource 208-4 or datafrom the first memory resource 201-4 to be stored in the memory of theparticular channel responsive to the request transmitted from the secondprocessing resource 208-1.

The first processing resource 208-4 may be selectably wirelessly coupledto the RAN, which may be configured to transmit the request for data viathe coupled base station 325. The request may be to receive the datafrom at least one second memory resource (e.g., one or more memoryresources corresponding to a respective one or more base stations), thedata corresponding to a particular functionality having instructions forperformance thereof stored in memory of a corresponding particularchannel of the first memory resource 201-1. Performance of theparticular functionality may be different following access of storedinstructions, including data received from the at least one secondmemory resource via the coupled base station, relative to instructionspreviously stored in the memory of the particular channel.

In a number of embodiments, a first memory resource (e.g., memoryresource 201-1) may be configured to wirelessly share data and a secondmemory resource (e.g., memory resource 201-2) may be configured towirelessly share data. A base station 325 may be wirelessly couplable tothe first memory resource 201-1 and the second memory resource 201-2 toenable the data to be wirelessly shared.

In a number of embodiments, a wireless base station 325 may be coupledto a first processing resource 208-1 coupled to a first memory resource201-1. A second memory resource (e.g., 201-4) may be coupled to a secondprocessing resource (e.g., 208-4) at at least one vehicle, as describedherein. The first memory resource 201-1 is separate from the secondmemory resource 201-4 and each are configured to wirelessly share databetween the first memory resource and the second memory resource viatheir respective processing resources. The at least one vehicle may beone or more vehicles selected from among the unitary vehicles 331 and/orthe transport vehicles 333 described in connection with FIG. 3 andelsewhere herein.

Pooling of the second memory resource 201-4 of a vehicle with a firstmemory resource 201-1 may be performed via at least one wireless basestation 325. For example, the second memory resource 201-4 may be pooledwith one first memory resource 201-1 at a time via one wireless basestation 325 or may be pooled with more than one first memory resource201-1 at a time via a corresponding plurality of wireless base stations325 (e.g., dependent upon geographical positioning of the vehicle withreference to one or more wireless base stations). In addition, thesecond memory resource 201-4 may be pooled with one or more first memoryresources 201-1 at a time a in a sequence of such memory pools as thevehicle upon which the second memory resource 201-4 is positioned and/orformed transits through various geographical areas corresponding to, forexample, access point and/or cloud coverage ranges.

A combination component (e.g., as shown in FIG. 1 at 112 in controller110) may be configured to assess resource availability of the firstmemory resource and the second memory resource via a wirelessly coupledbase station to determine whether to enable a combination thereof towirelessly share data. The availability of either the first memoryresource or the second memory resource may be determinable based upondetermination of a workload being performed at a particular point intime and/or in a particular time period by the first memory resourceand/or the second memory resource.

For example, the first memory resource may be available at a particularpoint in time when the first memory resource and/or the correspondingprocessing resource is not being utilized for performing a particularoperation (e.g., involved with forming a memory pool and/or enablingperformance of a particular functionality). Similarly, the second memoryresource may be available at a particular point in time when the secondmemory resource and/or the corresponding processing resource is notbeing utilized for performing a particular operation. The combinationcomponent 112 may be further configured to contribute to formation, bybeing wirelessly coupled to the base station 325, of the memory pool toshare the data responsive to determination that the data stored by anavailable second memory resource 201-2 corresponds to data stored by anavailable first memory resource 201-1 (e.g., for the particularfunctionality).

The combination component 112 may, in a number of embodiments, befurther configured to determine that data stored by an available secondmemory resource 201-2 is capable of enabling performance of an operationby the first memory resource 201-1 that is different from an operationperformable based upon data stored by the first memory resource 201-1prior to enablement via the wirelessly coupled base station 325 of amemory pool between the first memory resource and the available secondmemory resource. The combination component 112 may be further configuredto contribute to transmission, via the wirelessly coupled base station325, of the data from the available second memory resource 201-2 to acorresponding first memory resource 201-1. The data transmitted, via thewirelessly coupled base station 325, from the available second memoryresource 201-2 may be stored by the corresponding first memory resource201-1.

A first processing resource (e.g., 208-1 or 608), which includes thecontroller (e.g., as shown at 110 and/or 510-2), may be selectablycoupled to a transceiver resource (e.g., as shown at 663-2) configuredto transmit a request for the wirelessly shared data via the wirelesslycoupled base station 325. The request may be to receive data from atleast one second memory resource 201-2, where the data may correspond toa particular functionality having instructions for performance thereofstored in memory of a corresponding particular channel (e.g., as shownat 105-1 and/or 605-1) of the first memory resource 201-1. Performanceof the particular functionality may be different following access ofinstructions stored by the first memory resource 101-1, including thedata received from the at least one second memory resource 201-2 via thewirelessly coupled base station 325, relative to instructions previouslystored in the memory of the particular channel.

As described herein, the first memory resource 201-1, coupled to thefirst processing resource 208-2, and the second memory resource 201-2,coupled to the second processing resource 208-2, each may be configuredto wirelessly share data. In a number of embodiments, the second memoryresource 201-2 may be separate from the first memory resource 201-1(e.g., by being formed and/or positioned on different vehicles, asdescribed herein). A base station 325 wirelessly couplable to the firstmemory resource 201-1 and the second memory resource 201-2 may beconfigured to wirelessly share the data between the second memoryresource and the first memory resource.

An arbiter component (e.g., as shown in FIG. 1 at 114 in controller 110)coupled to the base station 325 and may be configured to selectablydetermine whether the first memory resource 201-1 and the second memoryresource 201-2 are authorized to enable formation of a memory pool towirelessly share the data. As such, the arbiter component 114 may beconfigured to determine enablement of the memory pool between the firstmemory resource 201-1 and the second memory resource 201-2 responsive toa request for the wirelessly shared data received by the wirelesslycoupled base station from either the first processing resource or thesecond processing resource.

A particular number of memory resources, from a plurality of potentialmemory resources, included in the memory pool may, in a number ofembodiments, be selectably scalable responsive to a corresponding numberof memory resources authorized by the arbiter component 114. A bandwidthof the memory pool may be selectably scalable by a particular number ofmemory resources authorized, by the arbiter component 114, to beincluded in the memory pool. A particular number of memory resources,from a plurality of potential memory resources, included in the memorypool may be dynamically determined responsive to a number of memoryresources mutually present within a particular proximity of the basestation in a particular time period. A particular number of memoryresources, from a plurality of potential memory resources, included inthe memory pool may be dynamically determined responsive to a number ofmemory resources authorized, by the arbiter component 114, as a match ina particular time period with an authorization criterion.

The match may, in a number of embodiments, be determined, by the arbitercomponent 114, as a match with at least one authorization criterion. Forexample, a plurality of authorization criteria (e.g., as shown in table770 illustrated in FIG. 7) may be usable by the arbiter component 114 toselectably determine whether the first memory resource 201-1 and thesecond memory resource 201-2 are authorized to be included in the memorypool. As such, the match with the authorization criterion may be a matchwith at least one of: a particular proximity of the first memoryresource and the second memory resource relative to the base station, asshown at 771, where the particular proximity may be either a stableproximity (e.g., a distance relative to other vehicles and/or the basestation, among other possibilities) or a proximity that is dynamicallyadjustable responsive to a determined density of memory resources (e.g.,as described in connection with FIGS. 3 and 4); a timing of the requestfor the wirelessly shared data, as shown at 772, where the timing maycorrespond to a time of day and the authorization may be dynamicallyadjustable responsive to a determined density of memory resources atthat time of day (e.g., higher density in rush hour may increase orreduce the number of resources authorized to be included in the memorypool); and/or a match of a protocol for wireless communication between afirst transceiver resource coupled to the first memory resource, asecond transceiver resource coupled to the second memory resource, andthe base station (e.g., a match of proprietary encryption for anorganization, a particular wireless fidelity (WiFi) protocol, and/or aprotocol requiring a matched keyword with which a particular fraction ofpotential unitary vehicles and/or transport vehicles are associated). Assuch, in a number of embodiments, the particular number of the pluralityof memory resources included in the memory pool may correspond to acorresponding number of authorized vehicles, which in a number ofembodiments may each be automated, and the base station.

An operating mode component (e.g., as shown in FIG. 1 at 116 incontroller 110) may be coupled to a processing resource 108 for eachmemory resource 101 included in the memory pool. For example, a firstoperating mode component 116-1 may be coupled to a first processingresource 108-1 for a first memory resource 101-1. The first operatingmode component 116-1 may be configured to determine a particular numberof a plurality of second memory resources 201-2 included in the memorypool. The first operating mode component 116-1 may be further configuredto direct an operating mode component 116-2 coupled to each secondprocessing resource 208-2 for the plurality of second memory resources201-2 to modulate operating parameters for access and/or transmission ofdata from a number of memory devices 103 in the second memory resources201-2 to correspond to the determined particular number of the pluralityof second memory resources 201-2. For example, burst length of dataallowed to be transmitted from the second memory resources 201-2 may, ina number of embodiments, be modulated to be shorter and/or cacheprefectch operations may be modulated to be increased to correspond witha higher number of second memory resources 201-2 in the memory pool,among modulation of other possible operating parameters.

FIG. 8 is a flow chart illustrating an example of a method 880 forformation of a memory pool between selected wirelessly utilizable memoryresources, via a base station, implemented on a corresponding number ofvehicles in accordance with a number of embodiments of the presentdisclosure. Unless explicitly stated, elements of methods describedherein are not constrained to a particular order or sequence.Additionally, a number of the method embodiments, or elements thereof,described herein may be performed at the same, or at substantially thesame, point in time.

At block 881, the method 880 may, in a number of embodiments, includetransmitting, via a base station 325 coupled to a first processingresource 208-1 coupled to a first memory resource 201-1, a request fordata stored by a second memory resource (e.g., 201-2, . . . , 201-5) ata vehicle (e.g., an automated vehicle) to contribute to processing of amission profile stored by the first memory resource 201-1. In variousembodiments, a particular number of a plurality of second memoryresources may be positioned and/or formed on a corresponding number of aplurality of vehicles (e.g., as described in connection with FIGS. 1-7).

At block 882, the method 880 may, in a number of embodiments, includereceiving, via the base station in response to the request, the datafrom the second memory resource to contribute to the processing of themission profile (e.g., as shown at 117 and described in connection withFIG. 1). Performing the mission profile may be based at least in part onprocessing of stored instructions at the first memory resource and thedata transmitted from the vehicle.

In a number of embodiments, forming a memory pool may include the firstmemory resource 201-1 and the base station 325 positioned at a fixed(e.g., stationary) access point, the second memory resource (e.g.,201-2) at the vehicle, and one or more additional memory resources(e.g., 201-3, 201-4, and/or 201-5, among possible others) at one or morerespective vehicles. Data may be wirelessly accessed from each of theadditional memory resources to contribute to the processing of themission profile. For example, in various embodiments, the data from theadditional memory resources may be utilized in addition to the data fromthe first memory resource 201-1 and the second memory resource (e.g.,201-2) or just the data from the additional memory resources may beutilized to contribute to the processing of the mission profile.

The memory pool may be formed responsive to determination that datastored by the second memory resource 201-2 is capable of enablingimproved elapsed time or safety of performance of at least a portion ofa mission profile previously stored by the first memory resource 201-1.Determining that data available from the second memory resource 201-2 iscapable of enabling the improved elapsed time or safety of theperformance may be based on a determination that the second memoryresource stores data representing at least one of mapping, imaging, orclassifying, or any combination thereof, of objects associated with anintended transit route of the previously stored mission profile. Hence,the memory pool may be formed to wirelessly transmit, from the secondmemory resource 201-2 to the first memory resource 201-1, at least oneof correspondingly mapped, imaged, or classified data, or anycombination thereof, to enable processing of an improved mission profilerelative to the previously stored mission profile.

Alternatively or in addition, a method may, in a number of embodiments,include transmitting, via a vehicle (e.g., an automated vehicle) coupledto a first processing resource (e.g., 208-2) coupled to a first memoryresource (e.g., 201-2), a request for data stored by a second memoryresource 201-1 at a base station 315 to contribute to processing of amission profile stored by the first memory resource 201-2. Such a methodmay further include receiving, via the vehicle in response to therequest, the data from the second memory resource to contribute to theprocessing of the mission profile. A memory pool may be formed as suchto include the first memory resource 201-2 at the vehicle and the secondmemory resource 201-1 and the base station 325 at a fixed access point.

The request may, in a number of embodiments, be wirelessly transmitted,via a selectably coupled base station 325, by a first processingresource 208-2 coupled to a first memory resource 201-2 positioned on afirst automated vehicle, where the request is for data to contribute toprocessing of a mission profile stored by the first memory resource. Aresponse may be wirelessly transmitted, via the selectably coupled basestation, by a second processing resource 208-3 coupled to a secondmemory resource 201-3 on a second automated vehicle to enable formationof a memory pool to transmit the data to contribute to the processing ofthe mission profile. The response may, in a number of embodiments, betransmitted from a base station that is different from a base stationfrom which the request was sent.

The mission profile may be performed based at least in part onprocessing of stored instructions at the first memory resource 201-2 andthe data transmitted from the second memory resource 201-1. The memorypool may be formed responsive to determination that data stored by thesecond memory resource 201-1 is capable of enabling improved elapsedtime or safety of performance of at least a portion of the missionprofile previously stored by the first memory resource 201-2 at thevehicle.

In a number of embodiments, the method may further include forming, bybeing wirelessly coupled to the base station, the memory pool to includemore than two of the plurality of memory resources to transmit the datato contribute to the processing of the mission profile (e.g., as manyresources as are authorized by the arbiter component 114 described inconnection with FIGS. 1 and 6-7). The method may further includeperforming the mission profile differently based upon processing ofstored instructions, including the data transmitted from the basestation, relative to instructions stored by the mission profile prior tostorage of the transmitted data. For example, the method may furtherinclude forming the memory pool responsive to determination that dataavailable from the second memory resource or the base station may becapable of enabling improved elapsed time and/or safety of performanceof at least a portion of a previously stored mission profile.

The improved elapsed time and/or safety of performance of the previouslystored mission profile may, in a number of embodiments, be based upondetermination that the second memory resource or the base station storesdata representing at least one of mapping, imaging, and/or classifyingof objects associated with (e.g., vehicles, road construction, and/orother movable or inanimate objects that potentially affect time and/orsafety) an intended transit route of the previously stored missionprofile. Upon such a determination, the memory pool may be formed totransmit, via the wirelessly coupled base station, at least one of thecorrespondingly mapped, imaged, and/or classified data to enableprocessing of an improved mission profile relative to the previouslystored mission profile.

In the above detailed description of the present disclosure, referenceis made to the accompanying drawings that form a part hereof, and inwhich is shown by way of illustration how one or more embodiments of thedisclosure may be practiced. These embodiments are described insufficient detail to enable those of ordinary skill in the art topractice the embodiments of this disclosure, and it is to be understoodthat other embodiments may be utilized and that process, electrical, andstructural changes may be made without departing from the scope of thepresent disclosure.

As used herein, particularly with respect to the drawings, referencenumbers with hyphenated digits and/or designators such as “X”, “Y”, “N”,“M”, etc., (e.g., 103-1, 103-2, 103-3, and 103-N in FIG. 1) indicatethat a plurality of the particular feature so designated may beincluded. Moreover, when just the first three digits are utilized (e.g.,103) without the hyphenation, the digits are presented to generallyrepresent, in some embodiments, all of the plurality of the particularfeature.

It is also to be understood that the terminology used herein is for thepurpose of describing particular embodiments only, and is not intendedto be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms “a”, “an”, and “the”include singular and plural referents, unless the context clearlydictates otherwise, as do “a number of”, “at least one”, and “one ormore” (e.g., a number of memory arrays may refer to one or more memoryarrays), whereas a “plurality of” is intended to refer to more than oneof such things. Furthermore, the words “can” and “may” are usedthroughout this application in a permissive sense (i.e., having thepotential to, being able to), not in a mandatory sense (i.e., must). Theterm “include,” and derivations thereof, means “including, but notlimited to”. The terms “coupled” and “coupling” mean to be directly orindirectly connected physically for access to and/or for movement(transmission) of instructions (e.g., control signals, address signals,etc.) and data, as appropriate to the context. The terms “data” and“data values” are used interchangeably herein and may have the samemeaning, as appropriate to the context (e.g., one or more data units or“bits”).

While example embodiments including various combinations andconfigurations of memory resources, processing resources, transceiverresources, memory devices, controllers, mission profiles, unitaryvehicles, transport vehicles, base stations, infrastructure, andswitches, among other components for formation of a memory pool betweenselected memory resources have been illustrated and described herein,embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to thosecombinations explicitly recited herein. Other combinations andconfigurations of the memory resources, processing resources,transceiver resources, memory devices, controllers, mission profiles,unitary vehicles, transport vehicles, base stations, infrastructure, andswitches for formation of a memory pool between selected memoryresources disclosed herein are expressly included within the scope ofthis disclosure.

Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and describedherein, those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that anarrangement calculated to achieve the same results may be substitutedfor the specific embodiments shown. This disclosure is intended to coveradaptations or variations of one or more embodiments of the presentdisclosure. It is to be understood that the above description has beenmade in an illustrative fashion, and not a restrictive one. Combinationof the above embodiments, and other embodiments not specificallydescribed herein will be apparent to those of skill in the art uponreviewing the above description. The scope of the one or moreembodiments of the present disclosure includes other applications inwhich the above structures and processes are used. Therefore, the scopeof one or more embodiments of the present disclosure should bedetermined with reference to the appended claims, along with the fullrange of equivalents to which such claims are entitled.

In the foregoing Detailed Description, some features are groupedtogether in a single embodiment for the purpose of streamlining thedisclosure. This method of disclosure is not to be interpreted asreflecting an intention that the disclosed embodiments of the presentdisclosure have to use more features than are expressly recited in eachclaim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive subject matterlies in less than all features of a single disclosed embodiment. Thus,the following claims are hereby incorporated into the DetailedDescription, with each claim standing on its own as a separateembodiment.

What is claimed is:
 1. An apparatus, comprising: a first memoryresource; a first processor coupled to the first memory resource; and awireless base station coupled to the first processor; wherein the firstmemory resource, the first processor, and the base station areconfigured to enable formation of a memory pool between the first memoryresource and a second memory resource at a vehicle responsive to arequest to access the second memory resource from the first processortransmitted via the base station in an extremely high frequency (EHF)band via fifth generation (5G) technology, wherein formation of thememory pool increases computation power of the second memory resource onthe vehicle to perform an automated functionality, wherein the automatedfunctionality comprises steering the vehicle to reach an intendeddestination and the automated functionality is respectively performed bya plurality of vehicles that have access to the memory pool; and asecond processor coupled to the second memory resource, wherein thesecond processor is selectably coupled to a plurality of switches for acorresponding plurality of channels of the second memory resource, andwherein the plurality of switches are coupled to a radio frequency (RF)transceiver and are activated to share data by the radio frequency (RF)transceiver with the first memory resource, and wherein the secondmemory resource incudes a graphics processing unit that performs amachine-learning algorithm regarding the automated functionality, andwherein an authorization criterion selectably determines whether thefirst memory resource and the second memory resource are authorized tobe included in the memory pool, and wherein the authorization criterionis a timing of the request for the wirelessly shared data, wherein thetiming corresponds to a time of day and the authorization is dynamicallyadjustable responsive to a determined density of memory resources atthat time of day.
 2. The apparatus of claim 1, further configured totransmit via the base station additional data from the first memoryresource to the vehicle responsive to another request from the vehicleor a network management device.
 3. The apparatus of claim 1, furthercomprising a controller configured to selectably determine, responsiveto prioritization of requested data, a particular memory device of thefirst memory resource to which data is to be shared by being received,via the base station, from the second memory resource.
 4. The apparatusof claim 1, further comprising a controller configured to selectablydetermine, responsive to prioritization of requested data, a particularmemory device of the first memory resource from which data is to beshared by being transmitted, via the base station, to a second processorcoupled to the second memory resource.
 5. The apparatus of claim 1,wherein the first memory resource, the second memory resource, and thebase station are configured to enable performance of an operationdirected by the first processor based upon processing of data sharedbetween the first memory resource and the second memory resource.
 6. Theapparatus of claim 5, wherein: the performance of the operation by thefirst processor is enabled based upon processing of data values sharedby a second processor coupled to the second memory resource; and thedata values shared by the second processor include at least one datavalue different from data values previously stored by the first memoryresource.
 7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the base stationcomprises a first base station radio frequency (RF) transceiver and thefirst processor.
 8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the base stationtransceiver and the base station are wirelessly couplable to a cloudprocessor to enable formation of a memory pool.
 9. A system, comprising:a first memory resource coupled to a first processor at a vehicle,wherein the first processor is selectably coupled to a plurality ofswitches for a corresponding plurality of channels of the first memoryresource, and wherein the first memory resource incudes a graphicsprocessing unit that performs a machine-learning algorithm regarding anautomated functionality; a second memory resource coupled to a secondprocessor of an entity in a stationary radio access network (RAN),wherein the plurality of switches are coupled to a radio frequency (RF)transceiver and are activated to share data by the radio frequency (RF)transceiver with the second memory resource in an extremely highfrequency (EHF) band via fifth generation (5G) technology; and a basestation coupled to the second processor of the stationary RAN and inwireless communication with the vehicle; wherein the first memoryresource, the second memory resource, and the base station areconfigured to enable formation of a memory pool between the first memoryresource and the second memory resource responsive to a request toaccess the second memory resource via the base station, whereinformation of the memory pool increases computation power of the firstmemory resource on the vehicle to perform the automated functionalitycomprising steering the vehicle to reach an intended destination and theautomated functionality, wherein the automated functionality isrespectively performed by a plurality of vehicles that have access tothe memory pool, wherein an authorization criterion selectablydetermines whether the first memory resource and the second memoryresource are authorized to be included in the memory pool, and whereinthe authorization criterion is a timing of the request for thewirelessly shared data, wherein the timing corresponds to a time of dayand the authorization is dynamically adjustable responsive to adetermined density of memory resources at that time of day.
 10. Thesystem of claim 9, wherein the first processor or the second processor,or both, are configured to determine availability of either the firstmemory resource or the second memory resource based upon a workloadbeing performed in a particular time period by the first memory resourceor the second memory resource, or both.
 11. The system of claim 9,further comprising a controller configured to contribute to formation,by being wirelessly coupled to the base station, of the memory pool toshare data responsive to determination that the data stored by anavailable second memory resource corresponds to data stored by anavailable first memory resource.
 12. The system of claim 11, wherein:the controller is further configured to contribute to transmission, viathe wirelessly coupled base station, of the data from the availablesecond memory resource to a corresponding first memory resource; and thedata transmitted, via the wirelessly coupled base station, from theavailable second memory resource is stored by the corresponding firstmemory resource.
 13. The system of claim 9, further comprising: acontroller configured to select, responsive to selective activation of aparticular switch of the plurality of switches, which particular channelof the corresponding plurality of channels is enabled to: transmit, viathe RAN selectably coupled to the particular channel, data stored inmemory of the particular channel responsive to a request received, viathe base station, from the first processor or the second processor; andreceive, via the RAN selectably coupled to the particular channel, datafrom the second memory resource to be stored in the memory of theparticular channel responsive to the request transmitted from the firstprocessor or data from the first memory resource to be stored in thememory of the particular channel responsive to the request transmittedfrom the second processor.
 14. The system of claim 9, furthercomprising: the first processor selectably wirelessly coupled to the RANconfigured to transmit a request for data via the coupled base station;and wherein: the request is to receive the data from at least one secondmemory resource, the data corresponding to a particular functionalityhaving instructions for performance thereof stored in memory of acorresponding particular channel of the first memory resource; andperformance of the particular functionality is different followingaccess of stored instructions, including data received from the at leastone second memory resource via the coupled base station, relative toinstructions previously stored in the memory of the particular channel.15. A method, comprising: transmitting, via a base station coupled to afirst processor coupled to a first memory resource, a request for datastored by a second memory resource at a vehicle to contribute toprocessing of a mission profile stored by the first memory resource,wherein the second memory resource is coupled to a second processor thatis selectably coupled to a plurality of switches for a correspondingplurality of channels of the second memory resource, and wherein theplurality of switches are coupled to a radio frequency (RF) transceiverand are activated to share data by the radio frequency (RF) transceiverwith the first memory resource in an extremely high frequency (EHF) bandvia fifth generation (5G) technology, and wherein the second memoryresource incudes a graphics processing unit that performs amachine-learning algorithm regarding an automated functionality;receiving, via the base station in response to the request, the datafrom the second memory resource to contribute to the processing of themission profile; and forming a memory pool comprising: the first memoryresource and the base station at a fixed access point; the second memoryresource at the vehicle; and one or more additional memory resources atone or more respective vehicle, wherein formation of the memory poolincreases computation power of the second memory resource on the vehicleto perform an automated functionality comprising steering the vehicle toreach an intended destination and the automated functionality, whereinthe automated functionality is respectively performed by a plurality ofvehicles that have access to the memory pool, wherein an authorizationcriterion selectably determines whether the first memory resource andthe second memory resource are authorized to be included in the memorypool, and wherein the authorization criterion is a timing of the requestfor the wirelessly shared data, wherein the timing corresponds to a timeof day and the authorization is dynamically adjustable responsive to adetermined density of memory resources at that time of day.
 16. Themethod of claim 15 wherein data wirelessly accessed from each of theadditional memory resources to contribute to the processing of themission profile.
 17. The method of claim 15, further comprisingperforming the mission profile based at least in part on processing ofstored instructions at the first memory resource and the datatransmitted from the vehicle.
 18. The method of claim 15, furthercomprising forming a memory pool responsive to determination that datastored by the second memory resource is capable of enabling improvedelapsed time or safety of performance of at least a portion of a missionprofile previously stored by the first memory resource.
 19. The methodof claim 18, further comprising: determining that data available fromthe second memory resource is capable of enabling the improved elapsedtime or safety of the performance based on; determination that thesecond memory resource stores data representing at least one of mapping,imaging, or classifying, or any combination thereof, of objectsassociated with an intended transit route of the previously storedmission profile; and forming the memory pool to wirelessly transmit,from the second memory resource to the first memory resource, at leastone of correspondingly mapped, imaged, or classified data, or anycombination thereof, to enable processing of an improved mission profilerelative to the previously stored mission profile.
 20. A method,comprising: transmitting, via a vehicle coupled to a first processorcoupled to a first memory resource, a request for data stored by asecond memory resource at a base station to contribute to processing ofa mission profile stored by the first memory resource, wherein the firstprocessor is selectably coupled to a plurality of switches for acorresponding plurality of channels of the first memory resource,wherein the plurality of switches are coupled to a radio frequency (RF)transceiver and are activated to share data by the radio frequency (RF)transceiver with the second memory resource in an extremely highfrequency (EHF) band via fifth generation (5G) technology, and whereinthe first memory resource incudes a graphics processing unit thatperforms a machine-learning algorithm regarding an automatedfunctionality; receiving, via the vehicle in response to the request,the data from the second memory resource to contribute to the processingof the mission profile; and forming a memory pool comprising the firstmemory resource at the vehicle and the second memory resource and thebase station at a fixed access point, wherein formation of the memorypool increases computation power of the second memory resource on thevehicle to perform an automated functionality comprising steering thevehicle to reach an intended destination and the automatedfunctionality, wherein the automated functionality is respectivelyperformed by a plurality of vehicles that have access to the memorypool, wherein an authorization criterion selectably determines whetherthe first memory resource and the second memory resource are authorizedto be included in the memory pool, and wherein the authorizationcriterion is a timing of the request for the wirelessly shared data,wherein the timing corresponds to a time of day and the authorization isdynamically adjustable responsive to a determined density of memoryresources at that time of day.
 21. The method of claim 20, furthercomprising performing the mission profile based at least in part onprocessing of stored instructions at the first memory resource and thedata transmitted from the second memory resource.
 22. The method ofclaim 20, further comprising forming a memory pool responsive todetermination that data stored by the second memory resource is capableof enabling improved elapsed time or safety of performance of at least aportion of a mission profile previously stored by the first memoryresource at the vehicle.